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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1101 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #286 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 1987 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #12 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python dataclasses - 798 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #113 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #471 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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: 24
  • Position: #3003 / 7309
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #930 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18498 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2720 / 3816
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4651 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1340 / 1864
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #350 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #203 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #135 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #921 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #343 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #488 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #852 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7757 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #565 / 1848
  • Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 767 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #197 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1441 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #120 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #626 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #633 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1210 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 6
ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #158 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7650 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1931 / 2073
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2123 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: 14
  • Position: #432 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 959 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #15 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 723 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #100 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 497 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #129 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #837 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #259 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3089 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #484 / 1061
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2958 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11906 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1735 / 3484
  • Number of attempts: 3
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