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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #293 / 551
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 317 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #43 / 80
Number of attempts: 11

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #708 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #178 / 302
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 680 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #173 / 298
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #480 / 522
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1114 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 58
Position: #220 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #5243 / 7384
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2226 / 3852
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1372 / 1887
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #378 / 843
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #810 / 3055
Number of attempts: 6

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1023 / 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: 13
Position: #253 / 839
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #1059 / 1870
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #582 / 1604
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2849 / 4174
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #514 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #107 / 139
Number of attempts: 2

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #31 / 151
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #266 / 344
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #146 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #875 / 4166
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 233 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #120 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1034 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #235 / 270
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: 14
Position: #316 / 1073
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #247 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #67 / 164
Number of attempts: 10

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #314 / 442
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #126 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1226 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1009 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: #494 / 648
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: #343 / 455
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #379 / 517
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #201 / 340
Number of attempts: 3