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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #629 / 1275
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1263 / 3877
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #342 / 584
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #589 / 859
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1231 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: #142 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #900 / 3076
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #125 / 533
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #578 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #983 / 1172
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #389 / 882
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #244 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #858 / 1885
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1542 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 / 384
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1524 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: #249 / 463
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #106 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1043 / 1631
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #372 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11497 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2843 / 4215
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1846 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #455 / 591
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #170 / 1270
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7967 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1104 / 2144
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2234 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 / 679
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 663 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: #104 / 209
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2068 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #219 / 508
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1036 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #191 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 847 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #322 / 406
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #101 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #144 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #187 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #862 / 1192
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1894 / 4194
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #702 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2388 / 3695
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3182 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 / 1085
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #990 / 3970
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 - 474 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #124 / 195
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #315 / 447
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #252 / 759
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #285 / 779
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #245 / 420
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 - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #552 / 1750
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 - 1258 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: #179 / 409
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 - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #344 / 461
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 - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1771 / 3765
Number of attempts: 2