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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #454 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 28
  • Position: #4356 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #322 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #115 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 553 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #83 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 692 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #116 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #210 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #531 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 17
  • Position: #707 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1022 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #338 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove dupes from array - 1377 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #163 / 341
  • Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data - 215 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #40 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2512 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 1
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