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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #473 / 1265
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2737 / 3855
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #514 / 575
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1352 / 1891
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #349 / 845
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #347 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #555 / 1157
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #231 / 855
Number of attempts: 7

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 20
Position: #161 / 380
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1503 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: #245 / 455
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #240 / 703
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #116 / 640
Number of attempts: 9

Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #727 / 751
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #866 / 1615
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 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: 31
Position: #27 / 129
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #251 / 701
Number of attempts: 11

comment and uncomment code inline - 1114 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: 13
Position: #283 / 320
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2785 / 4181
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #209 / 587
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 884 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: #118 / 212
Number of attempts: 12

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #155 / 1261
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1089 / 2121
Number of attempts: 7

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 126
Position: #45 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2209 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: 14
Position: #411 / 669
Number of attempts: 4

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 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: 15
Position: #92 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #68 / 95
Number of attempts: 10

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 248
Number of attempts: 7

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #293 / 389
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 973 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 56
Position: #142 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #16 / 139
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 446
Number of attempts: 21

convert yml into java pojo field - 856 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: #115 / 226
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #27 / 70
Number of attempts: 10

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #600 / 1190
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1172 / 4170
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #379 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: 12
Position: #224 / 582
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2360 / 3678
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #186 / 696
Number of attempts: 19

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: 15
Position: #484 / 1075
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1709 / 3957
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #949 / 1743
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1717 / 3653
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6825 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #556 / 1673
Number of attempts: 3