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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 845 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #37 / 285
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 42
Position: #47 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1087 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #27 / 354
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #25 / 418
Number of attempts: 5

Visual block training - 780 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #35 / 146
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 1978 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #187 / 563
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #83 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1384 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #102 / 294
Number of attempts: 3

Lowercase first characters - 421 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #23 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1264 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #122 / 283
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #158 / 423
Number of attempts: 4

Python dataclasses - 796 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #103 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 804 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #71 / 215
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4254 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #181 / 1044
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #138 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 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: #112 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4749 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #691 / 1574
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #127 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 1941 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #227 / 479
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1157 / 3932
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #108 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 394 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #154 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 638 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #316 / 350
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1534 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #243 / 432
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1053 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #325 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 256 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #38 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #293 / 724
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #318 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 584 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #121 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #307 / 636
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 359 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #65 / 113
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 973 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #540 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1260 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #264 / 505
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #81 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1416 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #458 / 540
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 691
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 11896 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #669 / 3481
Number of attempts: 3