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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1611 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 57
Position: #104 / 421
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1880 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #298 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #165 / 622
Number of attempts: 10

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: 11
Position: #190 / 566
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2532 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #300 / 725
Number of attempts: 2

simple replacements - 1873 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #81 / 401
Number of attempts: 16

Inverting Lines - 1956 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #270 / 524
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #143 / 393
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4595 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #478 / 1121
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #202 / 494
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #390 / 535
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 24
Position: #3137 / 7503
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #357 / 1291
Number of attempts: 8

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #437 / 1559
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2032 / 3898
Number of attempts: 14

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #108 / 592
Number of attempts: 14

V to the i - 4860 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1502 / 1910
Number of attempts: 10

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: 13
Position: #272 / 865
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1782 / 3093
Number of attempts: 7

Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 541
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #356 / 638
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #863 / 1182
Number of attempts: 6

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #168 / 908
Number of attempts: 19

Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #814 / 1898
Number of attempts: 7

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: 20
Position: #199 / 386
Number of attempts: 13

From argument to object - 1552 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #164 / 469
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #83 / 710
Number of attempts: 7

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #251 / 644
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #402 / 767
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #382 / 708
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1503 / 4246
Number of attempts: 8

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #281 / 594
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #273 / 1277
Number of attempts: 17

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #617 / 2153
Number of attempts: 17

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #299 / 431
Number of attempts: 7

One to Ten - 2248 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #358 / 686
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2093 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #204 / 514
Number of attempts: 6

Delete to the end of the current line - 866 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #365 / 416
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #212 / 459
Number of attempts: 15

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #525 / 1196
Number of attempts: 10

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #290 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #140 / 454
Number of attempts: 9

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2056 / 4218
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #434 / 1143
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #58 / 358
Number of attempts: 8

Don't know what this is - 2044 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #133 / 591
Number of attempts: 8

Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #220 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2524 / 3711
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #228 / 709
Number of attempts: 14

Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #364 / 522
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #362 / 1091
Number of attempts: 8

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #16 / 3986
Number of attempts: 11

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #279 / 366
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #128 / 456
Number of attempts: 10

Saving the hashes(#) - 2115 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #214 / 487
Number of attempts: 7

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #139 / 456
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #263 / 775
Number of attempts: 5

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #232 / 786
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #189 / 679
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #140 / 424
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #665 / 1759
Number of attempts: 5

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #317 / 365
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: 13
Position: #111 / 656
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1362 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #213 / 339
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #80 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

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