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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #1403 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2206 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #223 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1778 / 1904
  • 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: 14
  • Position: #299 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
  • Position: #32 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #543 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1140 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #232 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #526 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3586 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #372 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Text to HTML Table - 185 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #25 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 17
  • Position: #122 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 1010 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: #163 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1646 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 692 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #78 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #100 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1097 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: 16
  • Position: #139 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 30
  • Position: #97 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 2
Binary and Increment - 56 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #18 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2662 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2336 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 10
  • Position: #161 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #909 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 5
abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #168 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #248 / 771
  • Number of attempts: 6
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 114
  • Position: #39 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2366 / 3845
  • Number of attempts: 3
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