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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #348 / 1117
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #176 / 327
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #500 / 535
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #5731 / 7489
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #225 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #164 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #652 / 1557
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2570 / 3893
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1783 / 1904
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #550 / 864
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #95 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1464 / 3087
Number of attempts: 17

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #583 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #796 / 901
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #331 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #115 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1242 / 1643
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #317 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3596 / 4234
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 880 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: #273 / 295
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #1918 / 2147
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #422 / 430
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: 17
Position: #560 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

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: 49
Position: #226 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 29
Position: #1174 / 1194
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 35
Position: #436 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #3882 / 4208
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1012 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #673 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2758 / 3979
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #409 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #735 / 771
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #665 / 676
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1433 / 1756
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #544 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: #334 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 46
Position: #800 / 841
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 78
Position: #1779 / 1847
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.