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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: 16
  • Position: #155 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 12
HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #186 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #159 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 6
hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #459 / 722
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2376 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 9
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #350 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3185 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #358 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: 12
  • Position: #109 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 7
Ruby 1.9 compat - 642 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #70 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1107 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 5
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