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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 89
  • Position: #558 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #90 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 6
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #681 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #133 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 5
Transpose a python matrix - 907 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #125 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1884 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #261 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #394 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 6
swap number pairs - 2173 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #361 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2487 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #422 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #53 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 3
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 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: 29
  • Position: #138 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 28
  • Position: #4521 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #844 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1979 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1404 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #413 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1113 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1985 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2258 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: 15
  • Position: #543 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 3
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