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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #623 / 1257
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1254 / 3842
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #332 / 569
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #575 / 840
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 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: #139 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #893 / 3044
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #122 / 516
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #576 / 630
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #959 / 1144
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #364 / 827
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #244 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #850 / 1865
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: #163 / 376
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1474 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: #246 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #103 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1012 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #368 / 695
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2836 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #449 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #170 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1092 / 2101
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2165 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 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: #101 / 203
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #214 / 496
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #184 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #307 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #139 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #184 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #858 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1884 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #698 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2374 / 3667
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #486 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #982 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #38 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 442 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #121 / 189
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #311 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #245 / 738
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #279 / 768
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #239 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #137 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #552 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #62 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 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: #43 / 148
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #173 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: #115 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #341 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #139 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #198 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1727 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2