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Played Challenges

Fix the shell script! - 1732 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #40 / 421
Number of attempts: 11

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1356 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #20 / 460
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1565 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #121 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #34 / 215
Number of attempts: 7

Rural Post - 4257 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #4 / 1045
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1082 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 498
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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: #1164 / 7309
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #208 / 1247
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18498 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #354 / 3816
Number of attempts: 8

Separate the lines - 171 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #43 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #12 / 218
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #528 / 1864
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #97 / 827
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #702 / 3023
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #133 / 372
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #210 / 691
Number of attempts: 6

Array propagate - 318 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #63 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #220 / 737
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4753 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #555 / 1575
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 527 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #23 / 124
Number of attempts: 16

Number Sort - 299 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #34 / 159
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #196 / 689
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1041 / 4144
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 575
Number of attempts: 6

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #16 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Back to the roots - 47 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #15 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 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: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 206
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #88 / 1245
Number of attempts: 6

create arrows in a list - 92 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #52 / 65
Number of attempts: 4

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 21 entries

* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 12
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #32 / 100
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7650 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #339 / 2073
Number of attempts: 5

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #4 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 922 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #41 / 156
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #188 / 434
Number of attempts: 9

convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: #44 / 222
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 321 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #30 / 67
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #340 / 1176
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #90 / 436
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #662 / 4136
Number of attempts: 6

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #9 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: #217 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1200 / 3647
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3089 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #307 / 1061
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 300 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #33 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #670 / 724
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 451 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #16 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 634
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 11906 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #505 / 3484
Number of attempts: 4