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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #34 / 220
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 169
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #68 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: #2102 / 7401
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #25 / 259
Number of attempts: 9

Get mail address from outlook format - 647 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 203
Number of attempts: 9

Add text at some column - 171 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #36 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #315 / 1265
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #91 / 1532
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #628 / 3855
Number of attempts: 8

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1072 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #138 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #49 / 155
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #82 / 575
Number of attempts: 3

Unsemantic linewrapping - 918 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #62 / 228
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1440 / 1891
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #228 / 845
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #30 / 71
Number of attempts: 6

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #46 / 258
Number of attempts: 6

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1213 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: 20
Position: #97 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #473 / 3058
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #187 / 522
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #750 / 1157
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #105 / 855
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #307 / 1872
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #116 / 230
Number of attempts: 7

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 19
Position: #85 / 380
Number of attempts: 8

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 56
Position: #58 / 126
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1503 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: 17
Position: #132 / 455
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #87 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #62 / 703
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #158 / 640
Number of attempts: 8

Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #385 / 751
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4956 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #644 / 1616
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1114 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: 9
Position: #139 / 320
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11418 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1357 / 4182
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #318 / 587
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5644 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #219 / 1262
Number of attempts: 11

Adam's challenge - 978 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #539 / 2121
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 94 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #35 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2209 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: #271 / 669
Number of attempts: 4

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 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: #120 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #77 / 499
Number of attempts: 10

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #75 / 248
Number of attempts: 7

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #224 / 389
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1176 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #68 / 263
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #159 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

convert yml into java pojo field - 856 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: 29
Position: #82 / 226
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #470 / 1190
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15956 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1007 / 4171
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #279 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2014 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #235 / 582
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 249
Number of attempts: 10

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1497 / 3678
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #502 / 1075
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1081 / 3957
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #435 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #259 / 523
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12632 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1834 / 3655
Number of attempts: 3