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Played Challenges

Find fix point of cos - 1485 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #14 / 434
Number of attempts: 8

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 584 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #95 / 330
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1916 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 581
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #279 / 726
Number of attempts: 2

simple replacements - 1896 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #322 / 411
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1962 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #194 / 527
Number of attempts: 6

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #1 / 214
Number of attempts: 3

Extend shell script - 156 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 63
Position: #33 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #49 / 1124
Number of attempts: 6

Multiline to Single Line - 763 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #6 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #6 / 537
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 44
Position: #7323 / 7519
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6399 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #117 / 1564
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1966 / 3906
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #743 / 868
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #511 / 3098
Number of attempts: 10

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #363 / 1187
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1474 / 1901
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1346 / 4261
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #528 / 2158
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2260 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: #256 / 689
Number of attempts: 6

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #76 / 515
Number of attempts: 9

Delete to the end of the current line - 892 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #206 / 427
Number of attempts: 3

unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #52 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #110 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #213 / 451
Number of attempts: 3

Word frequency alignment - 310 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #103 / 166
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 704 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #277 / 372
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1643 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #126 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 120 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #61 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 467 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #35 / 113
Number of attempts: 8

Remove semicolons after expressions - 687 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #109 / 271
Number of attempts: 5

Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #28 / 216
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2805 / 3914
Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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