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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1378 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #347 / 432
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2185 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #12 / 623
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python dataclasses - 881 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #125 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4319 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #482 / 1059
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33256 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: #3015 / 7337
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #932 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2731 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1348 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2822 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #356 / 835
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 851 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #207 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1150 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: #138 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10760 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #926 / 3035
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1971 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #348 / 507
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2117 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #489 / 626
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3503 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #858 / 1135
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7789 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #568 / 1855
  • Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 782 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #201 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1451 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 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2877 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #632 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2538 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #635 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1210 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 6
ninja substitution - 1368 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #163 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7708 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1941 / 2084
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2140 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: #436 / 655
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #15 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 730 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 / 360
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #133 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15890 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #837 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #259 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #485 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2964 / 3939
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12045 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1743 / 3528
  • Number of attempts: 3
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