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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2128 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #253 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 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: #203 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #617 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #3621 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18797 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2720 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #123 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #368 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1243 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #118 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #695 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 547 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: #112 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #223 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 266 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 104
  • Position: #96 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #311 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3005 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #415 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 346 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: #79 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #710 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #14 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3693 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 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: #54 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2574 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #517 / 761
  • Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #227 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #704 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #665 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: #250 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13123 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3427 / 3774
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

swap number pairs - 2128 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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