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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4290 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #797 / 1052
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33240 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 / 7331
Number of attempts: 10

Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #740 / 1250
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6141 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #1250 / 1500
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #917 / 3830
Number of attempts: 11

Separate the lines - 173 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #79 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #363 / 566
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4717 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #625 / 1874
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #345 / 834
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10744 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2456 / 3030
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #570 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #543 / 1134
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3563 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #438 / 799
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7782 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1104 / 1853
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2869 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #346 / 695
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2289 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #357 / 740
Number of attempts: 4

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 114
Position: #15 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #194 / 690
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1042 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: #185 / 307
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2774 / 4152
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1795 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #378 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 254 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #131 / 136
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5519 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #482 / 1250
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7687 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1342 / 2079
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #392 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #107 / 135
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2128 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 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 627 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 / 200
Number of attempts: 7

Build a six - 268 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 54
Position: #84 / 90
Number of attempts: 4

Delete to the end of the current line - 729 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 / 359
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 926 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: #111 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 501 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #102 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

unknown command - 154 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #36 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #845 / 1179
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2640 / 4146
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1003 / 1124
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #565 / 576
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1356 / 3653
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #3569 / 3938
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 643 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #246 / 353
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 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 / 435
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #306 / 436
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2907 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #666 / 760
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #539 / 1728
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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 / 394
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 978 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 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11973 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1688 / 3506
Number of attempts: 4

Patrick Lavin
Twitter: @LavinComputes

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