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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #695 / 1124
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: #323 / 496
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #279 / 332
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #3675 / 7513
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #1146 / 1293
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1070 / 1562
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3039 / 3904
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #521 / 594
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1335 / 1914
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #568 / 867
Number of attempts: 5

Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #84 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2395 / 3098
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 45
Position: #626 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #884 / 1185
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #648 / 910
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #653 / 1901
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: 37
Position: #366 / 388
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #349 / 471
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #656 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #470 / 647
Number of attempts: 5

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: 26
Position: #766 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1431 / 1674
Number of attempts: 1

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 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: #126 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #539 / 711
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: #300 / 332
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3605 / 4255
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #497 / 596
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 57
Position: #255 / 276
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 553 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: #121 / 137
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #712 / 1279
Number of attempts: 2

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: 30
Position: #272 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1787 / 2157
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #229 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #265 / 433
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #173 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

Align commas - 1134 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: #239 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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: #203 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 31
Position: #391 / 461
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: #197 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #859 / 1200
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #372 / 456
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 - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3342 / 4224
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1017 / 1146
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #357 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

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: #374 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3201 / 3715
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #449 / 710
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #456 / 525
Number of attempts: 4

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: 17
Position: #928 / 1093
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3327 / 3991
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 216 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 68
Position: #56 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #614 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #527 / 789
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #525 / 684
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1540 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #416 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #580 / 661
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #2965 / 3902
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 59
Position: #1686 / 1889
Number of attempts: 2