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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: #955 / 7401
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #169 / 1265
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #242 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #499 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #427 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #88 / 1157
  • Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1503 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: #20 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #197 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #67 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 10
comment and uncomment code inline - 1114 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: #37 / 320
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11418 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #918 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 658 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #15 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 7
Stairstep digits - 392 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #19 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5644 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #71 / 1262
  • Number of attempts: 6
create arrows in a list - 112 entries

Add arrow at same distance

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #35 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 978 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: 18
  • Position: #30 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 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: 13
  • Position: #79 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 6
Nesting SASS - 265 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #29 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #288 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 7
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #36 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #574 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15956 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #591 / 4171
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #210 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1138 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #272 / 1075
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #786 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12632 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #482 / 3655
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6836 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1308 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 1
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