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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #62 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 660 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: #64 / 156
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1843 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #27 / 573
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #25 / 622
Number of attempts: 5

Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #51 / 208
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2525 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #187 / 724
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #103 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1684 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: #125 / 353
Number of attempts: 3

Lowercase first characters - 499 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 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1873 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #158 / 401
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #158 / 523
Number of attempts: 4

Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #165 / 311
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 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: #77 / 244
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #181 / 1120
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #149 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 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: #119 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #691 / 1658
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 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: #135 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #243 / 514
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1175 / 3983
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 539 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #111 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 435 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: #159 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #326 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1624 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: #251 / 453
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1141 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #336 / 453
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 321 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #43 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #314 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #333 / 678
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #260 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 669 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #121 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #319 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 405 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #68 / 118
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 1071 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 / 674
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #264 / 539
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 813 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #89 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1761 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #533 / 645
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 848
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 13473 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 / 3865
Number of attempts: 3