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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #629 / 1282
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1266 / 3889
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #342 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #592 / 863
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1253 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: #143 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #904 / 3085
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #125 / 536
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #579 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #987 / 1177
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3944 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #392 / 894
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #244 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #859 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #166 / 385
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1536 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: 18
Position: #250 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #106 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1047 / 1638
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #372 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2847 / 4230
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #455 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #170 / 1274
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1104 / 2146
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2241 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: #114 / 682
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 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: 15
Position: #105 / 210
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #219 / 510
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #192 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #326 / 411
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #102 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1185 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #144 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #188 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #864 / 1194
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1897 / 4202
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #703 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2391 / 3700
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #490 / 1086
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #993 / 3977
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #38 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 476 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #124 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #317 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #253 / 767
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #285 / 780
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #246 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #143 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #552 / 1754
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #64 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #45 / 150
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: 13
Position: #180 / 412
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #118 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #345 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #139 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1075 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 349
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13274 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1780 / 3811
Number of attempts: 2