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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4595 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #859 / 1121
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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 / 7503
Number of attempts: 10

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #758 / 1291
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #1302 / 1559
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #934 / 3898
Number of attempts: 11

Separate the lines - 197 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #85 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #380 / 592
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #625 / 1910
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #360 / 865
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2511 / 3093
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #579 / 638
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #565 / 1182
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #487 / 908
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1133 / 1898
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #354 / 710
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #371 / 767
Number of attempts: 4

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 83 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 114
Position: #19 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #194 / 708
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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: #200 / 330
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2795 / 4246
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #389 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #140 / 147
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #499 / 1277
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1377 / 2153
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #408 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #111 / 142
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2248 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 / 686
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 680 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 / 212
Number of attempts: 7

Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 54
Position: #95 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

Delete to the end of the current line - 866 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 / 416
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 1000 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: #118 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #111 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

unknown command - 175 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #36 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #858 / 1196
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2684 / 4218
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1019 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #580 / 591
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1356 / 3711
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #3610 / 3986
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #246 / 366
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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 / 456
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #317 / 456
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #686 / 786
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #539 / 1759
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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 / 416
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1077 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 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1768 / 3879
Number of attempts: 4

Patrick Lavin
Twitter: @LavinComputes

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