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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: 190
Position: #576 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 661 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: #141 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #443 / 580
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 2681 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 63
Position: #565 / 624
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1118 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 59
Position: #169 / 209
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: 32
Position: #543 / 567
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #639 / 726
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 247 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: #45 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 6
Position: #201 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #215 / 333
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 339 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: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #72 / 93
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: 47
Position: #222 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 406 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #105 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #231 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 867
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #439 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #1654 / 1901
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: #372 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #302 / 712
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #544 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 692 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: #213 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #127 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #983 / 1279
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: #210 / 233
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: 43
Position: #457 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #567 / 789
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #159 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1678 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #309 / 368
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 58
Position: #181 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 55
Position: #152 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #633 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 661
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: #416 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 501 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: #24 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #432 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

Thomas Hiron
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