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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 78
Position: #257 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #121 / 478
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1932 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #324 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 913 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #189 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 157
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #600 / 1116
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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: 42
Position: #460 / 491
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 747 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #75 / 318
Number of attempts: 3

Capitalize the Names - 412 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: 21
Position: #20 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #210 / 534
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 24
Position: #3105 / 7474
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #199 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #189 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1072 / 1555
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #3541 / 3889
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #220 / 286
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 881 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 251
Position: #155 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #508 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 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: #76 / 233
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #745 / 1903
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #753 / 863
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #221 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1736 / 3085
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #414 / 536
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1070 / 1177
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #520 / 892
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 45
Position: #1772 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 842 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #187 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #240 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #352 / 466
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 45
Position: #168 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #583 / 707
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #597 / 642
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #469 / 759
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1309 / 1637
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #542 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

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: 21
Position: #315 / 328
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1422 / 4230
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #499 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 119 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #53 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #950 / 1273
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #158 / 269
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1427 / 2146
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2241 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: #299 / 682
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 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: 17
Position: #165 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 56
Position: #498 / 510
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 40
Position: #245 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #237 / 411
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 979 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 46
Position: #106 / 165
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #491 / 1194
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 30
Position: #4119 / 4202
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1037 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 257 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 36
Position: #99 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #568 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1536 / 3700
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 51
Position: #681 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #943 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3686 / 3977
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #709 / 767
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2049 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #451 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #137 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3140 / 3810
Number of attempts: 1