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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1877 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #198 / 402
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1959 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 525
Number of attempts: 6

Modernise code - 1437 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #151 / 332
Number of attempts: 6

Put a cross in the square - 245 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #57 / 94
Number of attempts: 6

Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #325 / 536
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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 / 7508
Number of attempts: 17

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #476 / 1291
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1498 / 3901
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 593
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #627 / 1912
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #347 / 866
Number of attempts: 7

Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1222 / 3096
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #452 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #571 / 1183
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #616 / 1899
Number of attempts: 10

Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #96 / 236
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 - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #575 / 710
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #269 / 645
Number of attempts: 11

Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #716 / 768
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #370 / 708
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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 / 330
Number of attempts: 10

Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2776 / 4252
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #202 / 595
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 547 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 / 135
Number of attempts: 18

Missing Library and a Typo - 952 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 / 222
Number of attempts: 9

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 1277
Number of attempts: 14

Adam's challenge - 1020 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 / 279
Number of attempts: 9

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #428 / 2153
Number of attempts: 9

Order and join - 1030 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #127 / 264
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2249 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 / 687
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 681 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 / 213
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 - 867 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 / 417
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 - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #78 / 148
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #384 / 459
Number of attempts: 8

convert yml into java pojo field - 874 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 / 232
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 - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #405 / 1197
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #204 / 455
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1829 / 4221
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #224 / 592
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1344 / 3712
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1713 / 3987
Number of attempts: 4

Santa's naughty / nice list - 104 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: #24 / 28
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #490 / 787
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #538 / 1761
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2217 / 3892
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #691 / 1882
Number of attempts: 4