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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #226 / 295
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2035 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #102 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

EDN reformat - 1175 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #70 / 167
Number of attempts: 19

Remove line numbers - 745 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #103 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 567 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #200 / 318
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #355 / 565
Number of attempts: 3

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #427 / 476
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2605 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 57
Position: #533 / 606
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #320 / 712
Number of attempts: 5

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 43
Position: #107 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1814 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #267 / 392
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1008 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #214 / 317
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 736 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #248 / 312
Number of attempts: 7

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #81 / 173
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #497 / 533
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 338 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #110 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1125 / 2144
Number of attempts: 6

Sorting a glossary - 132 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #79 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

Angular naming conventions - 326 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #98 / 119
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #110 / 258
Number of attempts: 7

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #292 / 352
Number of attempts: 5

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #154 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #130 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #132 / 271
Number of attempts: 8

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1606 / 3695
Number of attempts: 2

Ninjas Leaderboard - 102 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #34 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 162 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #93 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Changing URL path in CSS - 139 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 69
Position: #59 / 63
Number of attempts: 5

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #144 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 474 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #133 / 195
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #280 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Shebangs for all - 2039 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 28
Position: #507 / 521
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1064 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #568 / 670
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 334
Position: #142 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 49
Position: #134 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #65 / 413
Number of attempts: 7

Hatsuyume - 548 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #91 / 189
Number of attempts: 7

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #230 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 29
Position: #3429 / 3765
Number of attempts: 2