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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1685 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #299 / 566
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #44 / 84
Number of attempts: 11

Rural Post - 4593 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #737 / 1120
Number of attempts: 4

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #183 / 329
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 753 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #173 / 321
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #493 / 535
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: #225 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #5298 / 7502
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2244 / 3898
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1384 / 1910
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #389 / 865
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10934 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #822 / 3092
Number of attempts: 6

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1049 / 1181
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: 13
Position: #268 / 908
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #1072 / 1897
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 5107 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #582 / 1665
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2862 / 4243
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #523 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #108 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #33 / 153
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #266 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #146 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #875 / 4217
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #120 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1043 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #236 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3198 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 / 1090
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #247 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #67 / 177
Number of attempts: 10

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #319 / 454
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1237 / 1758
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1077 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 / 676
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #346 / 463
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #391 / 539
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #207 / 352
Number of attempts: 3