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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1350 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #57 / 440
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 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: #62 / 148
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #27 / 514
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #25 / 569
Number of attempts: 5

Visual block training - 1047 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 195
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #187 / 699
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 572 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #101 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1605 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: #122 / 345
Number of attempts: 3

Lowercase first characters - 484 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 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1710 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #149 / 378
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #158 / 505
Number of attempts: 4

Python dataclasses - 1121 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #147 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

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: 22
Position: #75 / 234
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #181 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #144 / 256
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #118 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #691 / 1605
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: #129 / 371
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2023 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #238 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1162 / 3950
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 506 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #109 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 404 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: #156 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #323 / 359
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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: #248 / 443
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #331 / 442
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 297 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #42 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #301 / 748
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #324 / 653
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #257 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #121 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #311 / 643
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 364 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #66 / 115
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 1009 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 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #264 / 517
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: #84 / 257
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #475 / 567
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 758
Number of attempts: 8

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: 13
Position: #669 / 3626
Number of attempts: 3