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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 27
  • Position: #3882 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #887 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2227 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 3
Separate the lines - 191 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #78 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #370 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #904 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #833 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 842 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #212 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #98 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 8
From argument to object - 1536 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: 20
  • Position: #325 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #155 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #674 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #282 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2472 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 4
Un"finnish"ed Work - 119 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #46 / 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: 43
  • Position: #178 / 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: 20
  • Position: #153 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 16
  • Position: #114 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1009 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: 23
  • Position: #221 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 1
Create a table - 333 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #99 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #929 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 334 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #80 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2241 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #463 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 184 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: 31
  • Position: #55 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #371 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2929 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2815 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #277 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1607 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 4
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