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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1885 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #198 / 403
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 526
Number of attempts: 6

Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #151 / 333
Number of attempts: 6

Put a cross in the square - 256 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #57 / 95
Number of attempts: 6

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #325 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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 / 7517
Number of attempts: 17

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #476 / 1294
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1499 / 3904
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 594
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #627 / 1915
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #347 / 867
Number of attempts: 7

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1223 / 3098
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #452 / 543
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #571 / 1185
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #616 / 1901
Number of attempts: 10

Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #96 / 237
Number of attempts: 7

html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 72
Position: #103 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #576 / 712
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #270 / 647
Number of attempts: 11

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #721 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #373 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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 / 332
Number of attempts: 10

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2776 / 4258
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #202 / 596
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 553 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 / 137
Number of attempts: 18

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 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: #86 / 223
Number of attempts: 9

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 1281
Number of attempts: 14

Adam's challenge - 1043 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 / 281
Number of attempts: 9

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #428 / 2158
Number of attempts: 9

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #127 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2258 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 / 688
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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 / 214
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #351 / 515
Number of attempts: 2

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 102
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #96 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 882 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 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 1001 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: #89 / 168
Number of attempts: 12

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #78 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #385 / 461
Number of attempts: 8

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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 / 233
Number of attempts: 5

unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #28 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #58 / 89
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #405 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 458
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1832 / 4225
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #225 / 596
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1344 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1716 / 3991
Number of attempts: 4

Santa's naughty / nice list - 113 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: #25 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #492 / 789
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #538 / 1764
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2225 / 3907
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #694 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4