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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #633 / 1291
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1269 / 3898
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #345 / 592
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #594 / 865
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1272 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: #145 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #909 / 3093
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #127 / 541
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #581 / 638
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #992 / 1182
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #398 / 908
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 860 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #244 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #863 / 1898
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #167 / 386
Number of attempts: 5

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: 18
Position: #252 / 469
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 769 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #107 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1060 / 1667
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #374 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2851 / 4246
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #457 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #170 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1108 / 2153
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2248 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 / 686
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 680 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: #106 / 212
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #221 / 514
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1063 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #193 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 866 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #330 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #103 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1198 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #146 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #189 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #866 / 1196
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1906 / 4218
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #705 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2397 / 3711
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #492 / 1091
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #997 / 3986
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #38 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 479 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #125 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #318 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #257 / 775
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #289 / 786
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #246 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #144 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #552 / 1759
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 - 550 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 / 151
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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: #181 / 416
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 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 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #345 / 464
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 514 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #139 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #206 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1795 / 3879
Number of attempts: 2