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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #2925 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1043 / 1259
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1708 / 3852
  • Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 176 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #89 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4771 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1236 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1481 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: 22
  • Position: #383 / 453
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #395 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2869 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #408 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 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: 13
  • Position: #269 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2459 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 389 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: #106 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 2
Text to HTML Table - 174 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #40 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #131 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 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: 24
  • Position: #187 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #679 / 1260
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple addition - 312 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #87 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 78 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #27 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 958 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: 22
  • Position: #175 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1292 / 2114
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #184 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #380 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add Go XML to structure tags - 153 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #53 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #965 / 1188
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #388 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2181 / 4166
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #828 / 1132
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2201 / 3677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2369 / 3950
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1199 / 1742
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 263 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #84 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1584 / 3626
  • Number of attempts: 4
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