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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #856 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 17
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #181 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 14
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1407 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 13
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #214 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 10
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #225 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #114 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #178 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #51 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 13
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #352 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #863 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #152 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2407 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 119 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #34 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 405 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #132 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 943 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #58 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #478 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple addition - 332 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #28 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 7
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #64 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 333 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #22 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 880 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #188 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #776 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 10
7th Birthday - 210 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #71 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1097 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: 11
  • Position: #55 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 336 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #75 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #72 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #287 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 16
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #287 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #553 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #198 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 7
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #206 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #81 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #387 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #43 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2195 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 14
  • Position: #276 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1586 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 13
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #311 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #307 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #301 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 9
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #463 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1015 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #126 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #82 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #274 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 9
Shebangs for all - 2062 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #241 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 7
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #386 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #383 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #129 / 841
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #468 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 12
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #271 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 10
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