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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1833 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #195 / 396
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1932 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 518
Number of attempts: 6

Modernise code - 1420 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #148 / 328
Number of attempts: 6

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 92
Number of attempts: 6

Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #325 / 534
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #1752 / 7474
Number of attempts: 17

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #473 / 1282
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1492 / 3889
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 587
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #627 / 1903
Number of attempts: 3

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: #344 / 863
Number of attempts: 7

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1217 / 3085
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #447 / 536
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #568 / 1177
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #614 / 1891
Number of attempts: 10

Cool or not? - 842 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #95 / 233
Number of attempts: 7

html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 72
Position: #101 / 128
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #572 / 707
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #267 / 642
Number of attempts: 11

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #707 / 759
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #368 / 704
Number of attempts: 4

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: 9
Position: #110 / 328
Number of attempts: 10

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2770 / 4230
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #202 / 592
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 541 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 134
Number of attempts: 18

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: 16
Position: #85 / 221
Number of attempts: 9

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 1273
Number of attempts: 14

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: 18
Position: #75 / 276
Number of attempts: 9

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #428 / 2146
Number of attempts: 9

Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #125 / 261
Number of attempts: 5

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: 12
Position: #25 / 682
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #347 / 510
Number of attempts: 2

Build a six - 307 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #72 / 411
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 979 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 41
Position: #88 / 165
Number of attempts: 12

move titles next to url, in quotes - 551 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #76 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #379 / 452
Number of attempts: 8

convert yml into java pojo field - 867 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: #56 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

unknown command - 169 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #28 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 397 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #57 / 88
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #405 / 1194
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #200 / 446
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1819 / 4202
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #222 / 587
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1344 / 3700
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1708 / 3977
Number of attempts: 4

Santa's naughty / nice list - 91 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Position: #23 / 27
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #485 / 780
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #538 / 1754
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2173 / 3810
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #674 / 1825
Number of attempts: 4