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Played Challenges

Fill in the chess board - 979 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 186
Number of attempts: 14

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #96 / 1117
Number of attempts: 4

Capitalize the Names - 429 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 49
Position: #84 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #36 / 535
Number of attempts: 2

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: 23
Position: #92 / 234
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 23
Position: #2743 / 7489
Number of attempts: 8

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #102 / 205
Number of attempts: 5

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 161 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #35 / 53
Number of attempts: 4

Add text at some column - 178 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #30 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #507 / 1284
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #177 / 1557
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #816 / 3893
Number of attempts: 8

Right Align Part of the line - 144 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: 20
Position: #16 / 43
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #52 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

add line and index - 111 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 47
Position: #12 / 30
Number of attempts: 7

Aliases for cd - 908 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #25 / 158
Number of attempts: 14

Quote modules (ver.2) - 253 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #17 / 62
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #203 / 590
Number of attempts: 8

Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 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: 10
Position: #136 / 235
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1441 / 1904
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #447 / 864
Number of attempts: 4

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 348 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #41 / 74
Number of attempts: 6

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #89 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 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: #93 / 264
Number of attempts: 9

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1315 / 3087
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #174 / 539
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #234 / 636
Number of attempts: 15

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #746 / 1179
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #413 / 901
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #277 / 1895
Number of attempts: 5

Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #115 / 234
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #187 / 385
Number of attempts: 5

html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #15 / 130
Number of attempts: 16

From argument to object - 1536 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: #130 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #87 / 180
Number of attempts: 9

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #253 / 707
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #154 / 642
Number of attempts: 7

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #386 / 760
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #639 / 1643
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #271 / 704
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #137 / 328
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3014 / 4234
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #316 / 592
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #299 / 1274
Number of attempts: 8

Adam's challenge - 1010 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: #92 / 277
Number of attempts: 7

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #120 / 270
Number of attempts: 13

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #832 / 2147
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2243 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: #254 / 683
Number of attempts: 4

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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 / 211
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2087 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #72 / 513
Number of attempts: 6

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #116 / 257
Number of attempts: 11

Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #351 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 998 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #36 / 166
Number of attempts: 27

Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #116 / 267
Number of attempts: 9

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 147
Number of attempts: 9

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #155 / 453
Number of attempts: 12

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #81 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #620 / 1194
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #132 / 446
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1212 / 4208
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #402 / 1140
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #234 / 587
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1483 / 3703
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #166 / 706
Number of attempts: 16

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #335 / 1086
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1802 / 3979
Number of attempts: 2

Draw the Go board - 149 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 68
Position: #27 / 51
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII-art Histogram - 333 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #27 / 58
Number of attempts: 14

Alphabet soup - 445 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #31 / 111
Number of attempts: 5

calculations - 321 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #11 / 70
Number of attempts: 9

Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #183 / 771
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #120 / 783
Number of attempts: 10

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #977 / 1756
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #18 / 841
Number of attempts: 16

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1866 / 3846
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 35
Position: #404 / 1847
Number of attempts: 25