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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #21 / 172
Number of attempts: 12

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33735 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: #919 / 7445
Number of attempts: 13

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6352 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #214 / 1548
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18766 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #848 / 3873
Number of attempts: 9

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #240 / 857
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #570 / 3074
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 45
Position: #623 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #783 / 1169
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #757 / 1881
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #118 / 231
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1521 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: #189 / 381
Number of attempts: 9

From argument to object - 1513 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 460
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #366 / 704
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #64 / 641
Number of attempts: 18

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #250 / 755
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #652 / 1630
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #276 / 701
Number of attempts: 7

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #141 / 323
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11494 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #899 / 4213
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #142 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #68 / 1269
Number of attempts: 18

Adam's challenge - 992 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #127 / 272
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7952 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #281 / 2139
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #70 / 260
Number of attempts: 6

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #284 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #144 / 249
Number of attempts: 4

Put the months in order - 974 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 48
Position: #121 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #84 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #96 / 256
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #485 / 1192
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #101 / 446
Number of attempts: 11

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #286 / 1138
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 12
Position: #236 / 586
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1130 / 3691
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 9
Position: #29 / 518
Number of attempts: 11

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1109 / 3969
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #255 / 362
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #124 / 480
Number of attempts: 13

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #59 / 757
Number of attempts: 12

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #219 / 778
Number of attempts: 11

Switch function arguments - 2147 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #172 / 666
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #617 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #100 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #15 / 110
Number of attempts: 14

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #51 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #355 / 460
Number of attempts: 4

Increment, increment, increment.... - 696 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #35 / 411
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #108 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13010 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #478 / 3742
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7171 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 39
Position: #770 / 1759
Number of attempts: 3