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Played Challenges

CSV to MD format - 388 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 85
Position: #56 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #344 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 22
Position: #1859 / 7364
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #759 / 1257
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #1140 / 1517
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2227 / 3842
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #247 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1387 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #390 / 840
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1366 / 3044
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #370 / 516
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #651 / 1144
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #371 / 827
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #1064 / 1865
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: #167 / 376
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #509 / 700
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #381 / 635
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2882 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #599 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #805 / 2101
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2165 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: 14
Position: #469 / 662
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #109 / 242
Number of attempts: 5

Song Transcription Oops - 234 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #13 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #108 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 37
Position: #395 / 443
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: 31
Position: #140 / 223
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #433 / 1186
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1866 / 4161
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #705 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1406 / 3666
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #322 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 105
Number of attempts: 9

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1731 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: #130 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1744 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3