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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #477 / 1294
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2762 / 3904
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #530 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1363 / 1915
Number of attempts: 5

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: 14
Position: #360 / 867
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #349 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #566 / 1185
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #242 / 910
Number of attempts: 7

multiple cursor alternative - 1592 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: #162 / 388
Number of attempts: 6

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: 18
Position: #248 / 471
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #241 / 712
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2924 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 / 647
Number of attempts: 9

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #748 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #900 / 1675
Number of attempts: 3

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: 31
Position: #28 / 135
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #253 / 712
Number of attempts: 11

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: 13
Position: #295 / 332
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2799 / 4258
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #209 / 596
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 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: #125 / 223
Number of attempts: 12

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #155 / 1281
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1102 / 2158
Number of attempts: 7

Python challenge - 211 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: #50 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2258 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: #421 / 688
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #95 / 214
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #73 / 102
Number of attempts: 10

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #97 / 260
Number of attempts: 7

Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #313 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 1001 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: #146 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #17 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 461
Number of attempts: 21

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: 30
Position: #118 / 233
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 73
Number of attempts: 10

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #605 / 1200
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1184 / 4225
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #381 / 1147
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #227 / 596
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2380 / 3717
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #193 / 711
Number of attempts: 19

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #490 / 1094
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1726 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #961 / 1764
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1774 / 3907
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 37
Position: #597 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3