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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4595 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #693 / 1121
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: #322 / 494
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 - 33970 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: #3672 / 7503
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #1144 / 1291
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1068 / 1559
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3035 / 3898
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #520 / 592
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1334 / 1910
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #566 / 865
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 - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2390 / 3093
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 45
Position: #625 / 638
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #882 / 1182
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #646 / 908
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #653 / 1898
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 - 1552 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: #348 / 469
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #654 / 710
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #468 / 644
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #761 / 767
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1425 / 1667
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 - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #537 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #298 / 330
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3599 / 4246
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #495 / 594
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 - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #710 / 1277
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 - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1785 / 2153
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 - 680 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: #201 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 31
Position: #390 / 459
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 - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #856 / 1196
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #370 / 454
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 - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3336 / 4218
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1014 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #354 / 358
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2044 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 / 591
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3198 / 3711
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #448 / 709
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1663 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: #453 / 522
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #926 / 1091
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3323 / 3986
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 - 2629 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #613 / 775
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #524 / 786
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #521 / 679
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1536 / 1759
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #415 / 656
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #578 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2947 / 3879
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7610 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 59
Position: #1674 / 1874
Number of attempts: 2