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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 34
Position: #450 / 578
Number of attempts: 7

delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #199 / 580
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #166 / 567
Number of attempts: 8

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #418 / 726
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #125 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 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: #192 / 245
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #676 / 1124
Number of attempts: 4

Levenshtein distance - 139 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: #38 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #199 / 332
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #217 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 753 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: #222 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #378 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #5026 / 7513
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #527 / 1293
Number of attempts: 10

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1106 / 1562
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2030 / 3904
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1499 / 1914
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #491 / 711
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 426 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #144 / 154
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: #295 / 297
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2258 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 / 688
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #104 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #288 / 356
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1048 / 1146
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #283 / 361
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 264 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 120
Number of attempts: 6

Change name of a variable - 196 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 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 484 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #91 / 162
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 908 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #412 / 449
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1593 / 3715
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #501 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3704 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #275 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #254 / 457
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #341 / 459
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #335 / 684
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1015 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 35
Position: #651 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 53
Position: #202 / 216
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #457 / 661
Number of attempts: 4

The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #195 / 221
Number of attempts: 5

Shebangs for all - 2101 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: #502 / 532
Number of attempts: 3