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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #827 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 22
Position: #1629 / 7384
Number of attempts: 10

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #747 / 1259
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #1275 / 1530
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #924 / 3852
Number of attempts: 11

Separate the lines - 176 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #81 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #369 / 573
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #625 / 1887
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #349 / 843
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2479 / 3055
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #575 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #553 / 1151
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #454 / 839
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1119 / 1870
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #350 / 702
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #362 / 750
Number of attempts: 4

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 65 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 114
Position: #17 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #194 / 698
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 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: 10
Position: #190 / 316
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2782 / 4174
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #383 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #134 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #489 / 1260
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1361 / 2114
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #399 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #109 / 137
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2174 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: 12
Position: #21 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 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: 14
Position: #19 / 205
Number of attempts: 7

Build a six - 277 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 54
Position: #88 / 94
Number of attempts: 4

Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #64 / 387
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 972 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 48
Position: #115 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #105 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

unknown command - 166 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #36 / 86
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #852 / 1188
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2654 / 4166
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1010 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1996 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: 20
Position: #570 / 581
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1356 / 3677
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #3580 / 3950
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #246 / 359
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #98 / 443
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #311 / 442
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #676 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #539 / 1742
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: 12
Position: #89 / 402
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1009 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #490 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1713 / 3626
Number of attempts: 4

Patrick Lavin
Twitter: @LavinComputes

PhD Student at Georgia Tech in the @hpcgarage. Author of the Spatter memory benchmark. GRT.