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Played Challenges

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 580 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #323 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #345 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1878 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #456 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2531 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #12 / 725
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #181 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4593 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #520 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: #3064 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #954 / 1290
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2770 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1365 / 1909
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #370 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #217 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 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: #147 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #944 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #367 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #496 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #898 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #578 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #211 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1552 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 / 469
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #643 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #646 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1210 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 6
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #170 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1999 / 2152
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2247 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: #458 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #15 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 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 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #145 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #837 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #259 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: #495 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3000 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1819 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 3
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