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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #257 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #208 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #623 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 26
  • Position: #3637 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2733 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #124 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #373 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1252 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #118 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #709 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #116 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #225 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 277 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 104
  • Position: #98 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #315 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3024 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #425 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 377 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #82 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 17
  • Position: #714 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 77 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #15 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3711 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 241 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: 81
  • Position: #56 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #526 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #229 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #713 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #680 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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: 20
  • Position: #256 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3532 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Recursive Cowsay - 77 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Jan Wedekind
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Computer science PhD dabbling with programming languages, machine vision, and free software

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