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Played Challenges

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #65 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #1632 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #459 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #907 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #19 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #592 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #102 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 313 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #12 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2261 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #528 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #100 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3944 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #239 / 894
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #570 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 5
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #62 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1536 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: 18
  • Position: #239 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #19 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 9
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #234 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #210 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #534 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 549 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: 36
  • Position: #71 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 319 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: #73 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #187 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: 9
  • Position: #102 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #178 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 3
Missing Library and a Typo - 943 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: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #148 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #135 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 9
Adam's challenge - 1009 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: 18
  • Position: #68 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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: 13
  • Position: #117 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #396 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #55 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 2241 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #23 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #71 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 979 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #91 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 551 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #73 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #127 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 867 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: 30
  • Position: #102 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #385 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #199 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1828 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #241 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 11
  • Position: #100 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2346 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #297 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #926 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array Transposition - 202 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #19 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #203 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #518 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13274 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #548 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 3
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