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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2262 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 190
Position: #489 / 491
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 96
Position: #132 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1527 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #367 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 63
Position: #489 / 542
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1005 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 59
Position: #151 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1578 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 32
Position: #503 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #583 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 219 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 59
Position: #41 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 305 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 6
Position: #183 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1333 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #198 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 292 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 49
Position: #64 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 47
Position: #205 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #94 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #215 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 840
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #420 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #1623 / 1865
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 44
Position: #360 / 376
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #295 / 700
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #531 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #208 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #124 / 138
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #964 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #127 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 38
Position: #201 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 43
Position: #439 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #553 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #154 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1655 / 1736
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #309 / 356
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 58
Position: #170 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 55
Position: #148 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #618 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 28
Position: #398 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 456 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #422 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Thomas Hiron
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