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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2669 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 82
  • Position: #556 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1916 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #323 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 11
Fix the shell script! - 2703 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #358 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #207 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #298 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 3
Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #71 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #229 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #221 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1601 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #274 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 740 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #93 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1757 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #339 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #183 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #268 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1510 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #117 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2032 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7723 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #1381 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 6
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