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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1829 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #32 / 495
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: 24
Position: #3007 / 7363
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2394 / 3842
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #18 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #108 / 224
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1277 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #199 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #125 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1782 / 3044
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #313 / 516
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #132 / 1144
Number of attempts: 4

Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #52 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #12 / 1864
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 226
Number of attempts: 6

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 21
Position: #205 / 376
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #39 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1474 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: 18
Position: #187 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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: #57 / 314
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11358 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #922 / 4163
Number of attempts: 3

Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 385 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: #121 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Subnetting - 111 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 34
Position: #16 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #127 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 957 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: 21
Position: #148 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #179 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #52 / 94
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #24 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat Cura settings - 112 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 84
Position: #20 / 21
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2004 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #272 / 496
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 234 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #10 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #118 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #49 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #218 / 443
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1325 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: #115 / 473
Number of attempts: 7