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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 1136 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 190
  • Position: #242 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 459 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: #100 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1098 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #269 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 1731 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #375 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 780 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #119 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1356 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #440 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #499 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment number for every 10 lines - 180 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: #36 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #149 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #171 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate Bullets - 253 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: #53 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 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: #193 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 307 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #88 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #208 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #21 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #408 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7757 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #1606 / 1848
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1453 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: #356 / 372
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #292 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #526 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 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: #207 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #123 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #953 / 1245
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #126 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: #200 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1534 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: #432 / 432
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #544 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and double space - 471 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #151 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1645 / 1724
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 538 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #309 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 952 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #168 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 418 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #147 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #614 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #78 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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: #392 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 432 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: #18 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #418 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 1
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