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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4581 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #690 / 1118
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2477 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #321 / 493
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #277 / 329
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 26
Position: #3671 / 7496
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #1141 / 1287
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6381 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1067 / 1558
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3033 / 3896
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #518 / 590
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4840 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1333 / 1905
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #565 / 864
Number of attempts: 5

Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #83 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10930 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2387 / 3090
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 45
Position: #624 / 637
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #880 / 1179
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3970 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #642 / 903
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7991 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #653 / 1896
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: 37
Position: #364 / 386
Number of attempts: 3

From argument to object - 1543 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: 20
Position: #347 / 468
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2934 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #652 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #467 / 643
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2386 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #756 / 762
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5074 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1414 / 1653
Number of attempts: 1

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 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: 45
Position: #124 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #535 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 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: 14
Position: #297 / 329
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3595 / 4238
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1854 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #494 / 593
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 57
Position: #254 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

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: 37
Position: #120 / 135
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #708 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 1018 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: 30
Position: #269 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1782 / 2149
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #227 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #265 / 431
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #172 / 186
Number of attempts: 2

Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #237 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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: 22
Position: #200 / 211
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2456 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 31
Position: #387 / 456
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: 36
Position: #196 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4323 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #855 / 1195
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1668 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #366 / 448
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 51
Position: #287 / 291
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3334 / 4213
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1011 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #350 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #368 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3195 / 3707
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #446 / 706
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1644 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #451 / 520
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 17
Position: #924 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3319 / 3981
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 215 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 68
Position: #55 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2615 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #611 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #523 / 784
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2192 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #519 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1533 / 1756
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #413 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #577 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2936 / 3863
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7553 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 59
Position: #1665 / 1863
Number of attempts: 2