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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 190
Position: #521 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 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: #134 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #393 / 514
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 63
Position: #511 / 569
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1047 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 59
Position: #159 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 32
Position: #528 / 551
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #612 / 699
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 229 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: #43 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 6
Position: #188 / 200
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #204 / 316
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 309 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: #66 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 892 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: #212 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 348 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #96 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #218 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 843
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #422 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #1628 / 1870
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: #362 / 378
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #297 / 702
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #533 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 641 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: #209 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #125 / 139
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #966 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #128 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: #203 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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: #443 / 443
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #556 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 498 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #156 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1659 / 1742
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #309 / 360
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 58
Position: #172 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 420 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 55
Position: #149 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #619 / 643
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 646
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: #399 / 402
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 459 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: #21 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #423 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Thomas Hiron
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