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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2618 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 34
Position: #440 / 567
Number of attempts: 7

delete swap - 1814 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #199 / 565
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #164 / 559
Number of attempts: 8

hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #409 / 713
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #125 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 37
Position: #187 / 240
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #670 / 1114
Number of attempts: 4

Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

Best score: 27
Best player score: 44
Position: #35 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #197 / 319
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #217 / 313
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 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: 31
Position: #219 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #378 / 533
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: 29
Position: #5004 / 7459
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4651 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #524 / 1278
Number of attempts: 10

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1098 / 1551
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18811 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2021 / 3883
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4826 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1494 / 1900
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2599 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #487 / 702
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #140 / 149
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 45
Position: #292 / 294
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2240 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: #351 / 681
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #104 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #288 / 352
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1040 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #278 / 354
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 116
Number of attempts: 6

Change name of a variable - 180 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #126 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #89 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #409 / 438
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10703 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1593 / 3696
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1644 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 19
Position: #496 / 520
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3688 / 3972
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #275 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1619 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: #252 / 449
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1136 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #337 / 449
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2179 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #333 / 673
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5089 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1008 / 1751
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 35
Position: #646 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 505 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 53
Position: #197 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #453 / 656
Number of attempts: 4

The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #191 / 215
Number of attempts: 5

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: 25
Position: #495 / 523
Number of attempts: 3