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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #625 / 1259
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1259 / 3852
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #335 / 573
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #576 / 843
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1203 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: #141 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #896 / 3055
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #125 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #577 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #965 / 1151
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #369 / 839
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #244 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #852 / 1870
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: #165 / 378
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1481 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: #248 / 453
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 747 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #106 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1023 / 1605
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #371 / 698
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2838 / 4174
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #451 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #170 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1095 / 2114
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2174 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 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 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: #103 / 205
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2023 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #216 / 498
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 995 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #186 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #309 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 287 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #100 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1146 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #141 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 628 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #185 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #860 / 1188
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1886 / 4166
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #700 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2378 / 3677
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #487 / 1073
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #983 / 3950
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 506 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #38 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 444 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #122 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #312 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #246 / 748
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #282 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #140 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #552 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #63 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 508 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: #44 / 149
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: #174 / 402
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 - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #342 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #139 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #200 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1740 / 3626
Number of attempts: 2