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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #474 / 1284
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2755 / 3893
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #527 / 590
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1360 / 1904
Number of attempts: 5

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: #358 / 864
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #348 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #564 / 1179
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: 13
Position: #241 / 901
Number of attempts: 7

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: 20
Position: #161 / 385
Number of attempts: 6

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: #246 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #240 / 707
Number of attempts: 8

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: 13
Position: #116 / 642
Number of attempts: 9

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #735 / 760
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #885 / 1643
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 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 / 133
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #251 / 704
Number of attempts: 11

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: 13
Position: #291 / 328
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2795 / 4234
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #209 / 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: 17
Position: #124 / 221
Number of attempts: 12

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #155 / 1274
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1097 / 2147
Number of attempts: 7

Python challenge - 203 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: #48 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2243 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: #419 / 683
Number of attempts: 4

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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: #94 / 211
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #72 / 101
Number of attempts: 10

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #95 / 257
Number of attempts: 7

Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #312 / 415
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 998 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: #145 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #17 / 147
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 453
Number of attempts: 21

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: #117 / 231
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 342 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #28 / 71
Number of attempts: 10

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #602 / 1194
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1181 / 4208
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #379 / 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: 12
Position: #224 / 587
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2374 / 3703
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #189 / 706
Number of attempts: 19

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: 15
Position: #486 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1719 / 3979
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #956 / 1756
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1760 / 3846
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 37
Position: #584 / 1847
Number of attempts: 3