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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #541 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #2825 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #757 / 1530
  • Number of attempts: 4
Aliases for cd - 877 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #110 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wget failed to download redirections - 185 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #21 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4771 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #878 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1302 / 3055
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #570 / 1151
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #110 / 398
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #978 / 1870
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #316 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array propagate - 332 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #61 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #402 / 750
  • Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 149 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #16 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #974 / 1604
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #286 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1519 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 39 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #15 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #49 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 1
Acute accents - 33 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #7 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #608 / 1260
  • Number of attempts: 2
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 179 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #31 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 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: 13
  • Position: #141 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1486 / 2114
  • Number of attempts: 2
7th Birthday - 187 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #28 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #149 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #4 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 5
lipsum lines - 255 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #64 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 307 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: #89 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 415 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #68 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Manual SQL - 136 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #13 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2174 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: 14
  • Position: #432 / 664
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 34 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #10 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
Binary and Increment - 48 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #11 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change your calendar - 363 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #42 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #798 / 1188
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #51 / 344
  • Number of attempts: 1
readability - 315 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #91 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 197 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #44 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line 'em up! - 396 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #91 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 237 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #73 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 333 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #59 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #169 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 220 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #43 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Config Sections - 39 entries

Section me!

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #11 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 3
Refactoring useless Method away - 92 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #13 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 5
Test everything! - 163 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #35 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 794 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #102 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 2
increment by column in XML - 147 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #29 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 104 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #14 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 2
Pretty format for variable declarations - 156 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #34 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple Maths - 46 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #13 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #15 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
C to VimDict - 47 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #10 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 4
range(10) digit rotation - 33 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #4 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1429 / 4166
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shift down - 194 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #35 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 4
learn vim in short time - 233 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #39 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 62 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #14 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 284 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #76 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 2
Roman numerals - 69 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #19 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #457 / 1132
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #282 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 2
Suffix sort - 255 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #42 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 449 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #78 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 5
Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #142 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 126 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #37 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #33 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 6
Winding path - 94 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #20 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 1
Comparing scores - 95 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #25 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #134 / 298
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1996 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: 14
  • Position: #300 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #253 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #152 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 67 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #25 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 349 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #70 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1746 / 3677
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 478 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #53 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1598 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: 11
  • Position: #183 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 1
Untangle my tail, please! - 58 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #19 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 15
  • Position: #367 / 1073
  • Number of attempts: 1
Top X - 192 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #48 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change The Perspective - 38 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...,s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #13 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 252 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #69 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #314 / 3950
  • Number of attempts: 6
Pairs of numbers - 361 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #79 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 2
paste indent correction - JS - 103 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1017 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #148 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 398 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #20 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 1
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 167 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #29 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 3
Word frequency alignment - 278 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #17 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 1
LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 41 entries

Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "\( . . . \)" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "\( . . . \)" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"

  • Best score: 63
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #9 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #57 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 3
Coordinates placeholder - 64 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #23 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 282 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #45 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 1
Create a pandoc compatible table - 185 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #47 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 444 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #139 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 136 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #30 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 175 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #33 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #109 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #171 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 4
Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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: 25
  • Position: #139 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 99 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #15 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #183 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enharmonic Equivalents - 57 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #7 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #55 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #422 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #332 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #154 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 498 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #14 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #10 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #157 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 1
un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #37 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #712 / 1742
  • Number of attempts: 3
The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #79 / 360
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #113 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #444 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1345 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: 22
  • Position: #171 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #24 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 843 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #117 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #430 / 646
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 13
  • Position: #190 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1009 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: #266 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #129 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hatsuyume - 467 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #102 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #47 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #136 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove Accent off the Letter - 107 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #18 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #71 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #73 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #102 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #186 / 397
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 930 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #240 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #384 / 758
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #947 / 3626
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #851 / 1652
  • Number of attempts: 1
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