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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #350 / 1124
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #177 / 332
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #502 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #5747 / 7517
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #228 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 663 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #167 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #653 / 1563
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2577 / 3904
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1793 / 1915
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #553 / 867
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #96 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1468 / 3098
Number of attempts: 17

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #586 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #805 / 910
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #334 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 354 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #116 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1266 / 1675
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #321 / 332
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3609 / 4258
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #275 / 297
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #1926 / 2158
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #425 / 433
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: 17
Position: #563 / 688
Number of attempts: 2

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: 49
Position: #227 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 29
Position: #1179 / 1200
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 35
Position: #448 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #3895 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1019 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #677 / 711
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2765 / 3991
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #415 / 459
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #742 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #673 / 684
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1440 / 1764
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #547 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1313 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #338 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 46
Position: #822 / 866
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 78
Position: #1822 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

Shunichi Kanade
Twitter: @shunkana

started in dot-coms during bubble years, crash, switched to finance industry, back to software industry because I love it. Java mostly, Ruby is my passion.