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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #639 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #868 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1667 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4860 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #411 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #735 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #424 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #46 / 1182
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #106 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #404 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1036 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2287 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #812 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1586 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #42 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #167 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #202 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #172 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #95 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 3
Put the months in order - 1000 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #82 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #245 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1683 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #641 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1015 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #286 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #470 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #436 / 786
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #439 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1587 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 3
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