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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33966 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: 31
Position: #5633 / 7501
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1177 / 1290
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 40
Position: #3824 / 3898
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1722 / 1909
Number of attempts: 3

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: 18
Position: #673 / 865
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2577 / 3091
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 33
Position: #816 / 908
Number of attempts: 2

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: 41
Position: #369 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #642 / 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: 26
Position: #577 / 644
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1252 / 1662
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 321 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: 12
Position: #167 / 171
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: 27
Position: #325 / 329
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 140 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #77 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11574 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #3981 / 4241
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 62
Position: #263 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 126 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #938 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #170 / 177
Number of attempts: 3

Fun With The Diagonal - 110 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #58 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 191 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #226 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 21
Position: #418 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

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: 41
Position: #221 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #250 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1074 / 1196
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 27
Position: #346 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

Not enough Ps - 74 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #3923 / 4216
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #105 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 315 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 32
Position: #101 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #853 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 182 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #107 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #394 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2849 / 3711
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #481 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: #922 / 1089
Number of attempts: 1

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: #170 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 42
Position: #148 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #380 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #565 / 774
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #668 / 785
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #420 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 502 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 35
Position: #196 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #253 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #280 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 40
Position: #138 / 151
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: 18
Position: #544 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 393 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #190 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #504 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1076 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #477 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 314 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 174
Position: #133 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #442 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #353 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 552 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #160 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 9
Position: #211 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13517 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 29
Position: #3510 / 3876
Number of attempts: 1

Brent Woo
Twitter: @BrentPWoo

Linguistics PhD student at UW: idioms, coordination, experimental syntax, Slavic. he/him