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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #606 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3218 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #555 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: 19
  • Position: #50 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 9
From argument to object - 1566 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: 17
  • Position: #81 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #501 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2923 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 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #717 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #509 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #636 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1089 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 9
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #430 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #21 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #824 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1042 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: 21
  • Position: #164 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #250 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #950 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #46 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 8
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #443 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #849 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1777 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #845 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2066 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: 14
  • Position: #371 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1252 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 19
  • Position: #1010 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #887 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #499 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1696 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 7
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