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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #459 / 1124
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #252 / 332
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #255 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4883 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1384 / 1914
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #597 / 867
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #518 / 3098
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #283 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #465 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #203 / 1185
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #404 / 910
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #874 / 1901
Number of attempts: 4

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 152 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #26 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: 30
Position: #347 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 58
Position: #65 / 131
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2923 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #510 / 647
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #385 / 772
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1066 / 1674
Number of attempts: 2

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #67 / 135
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #485 / 711
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #209 / 332
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #71 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3871 / 4255
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 131 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #55 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1048 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #134 / 398
Number of attempts: 2

For all cases. - 180 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #66 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #110 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #158 / 223
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #950 / 1280
Number of attempts: 1

Simple addition - 351 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #112 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 201 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

create arrows in a list - 146 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #73 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 302 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #61 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 350 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #92 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1390 / 2157
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #128 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #411 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 182 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #46 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #113 / 144
Number of attempts: 4

Python challenge - 211 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 40
Position: #25 / 51
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2258 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: 22
Position: #605 / 688
Number of attempts: 2

Around the clock - 220 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #42 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 258 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #35 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #332 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 310 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #34 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1201 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #183 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 39
Position: #213 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #219 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 464 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #221 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 827 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #224 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2323 / 4224
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 247 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #109 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 301 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #64 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 196 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #111 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #185 / 276
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #398 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2477 / 3716
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1686 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #364 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 22
Position: #1045 / 1093
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #3524 / 3991
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 279 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #81 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

Readable Rubyhash - 285 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: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #46 / 98
Number of attempts: 5

Santa's naughty / nice list - 113 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 57
Position: #24 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #158 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #248 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 15
Position: #419 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #321 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #437 / 684
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 426
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #966 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #288 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #149 / 221
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2103 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #245 / 533
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1091 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #495 / 680
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #349 / 466
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #42 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #395 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 331 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 45
Position: #83 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #238 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #211 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat a C golf submission - 678 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #145 / 220
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #537 / 655
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #220 / 615
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1120 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1