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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #421 / 551
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 985 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #107 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #89 / 699
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #403 / 505
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1121 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 281
Number of attempts: 6

swap number pairs - 2023 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #82 / 373
Number of attempts: 19

HS Final exam vimgolf - 892 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #114 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #97 / 1086
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2360 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: 23
Position: #220 / 465
Number of attempts: 6

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #229 / 302
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 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: #97 / 218
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 757 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: 24
Position: #120 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #286 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1114 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: 35
Position: #169 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 26
Position: #3699 / 7384
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #166 / 257
Number of attempts: 4

Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #64 / 202
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #517 / 1259
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #695 / 1530
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1332 / 3852
Number of attempts: 10

Quote modules - 1066 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #192 / 278
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #434 / 573
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1469 / 1887
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #610 / 843
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1203 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: 36
Position: #220 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1926 / 3055
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 48
Position: #499 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1054 / 1151
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #562 / 839
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #796 / 1870
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #520 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2869 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #175 / 639
Number of attempts: 9

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #88 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3145 / 4174
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #247 / 1260
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1399 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #190 / 265
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1430 / 2114
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2174 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: #325 / 664
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2023 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #269 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #503 / 1188
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2011 / 4166
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2485 / 3677
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #3500 / 3950
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1871 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1