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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 190
Position: #574 / 576
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 660 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: #140 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1880 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #438 / 575
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 63
Position: #563 / 622
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 59
Position: #168 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1685 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 32
Position: #542 / 566
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2532 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #638 / 725
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 245 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: #44 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 345 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 6
Position: #199 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #214 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 337 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: #70 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 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: #221 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #103 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #228 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 865
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #438 / 541
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #1651 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #370 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #301 / 710
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #542 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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: #211 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #126 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #981 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #132 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #209 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 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: #454 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #564 / 785
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 502 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 200
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1673 / 1758
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #309 / 365
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1016 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 58
Position: #179 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 55
Position: #151 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #632 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1287 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: #412 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 486 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: #23 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #430 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

Thomas Hiron
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