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Played Challenges

Create a diamond comment - 270 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 307
Position: #65 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 330 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 182
Position: #74 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 796 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 204
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #156 / 267
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33124 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: #2928 / 7307
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #227 / 1247
Number of attempts: 12

One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #421 / 3815
Number of attempts: 20

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #111 / 1864
Number of attempts: 13

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1867 / 3023
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #165 / 789
Number of attempts: 8

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 649 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #234 / 374
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7746 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1111 / 1846
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #266 / 372
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4749 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1121 / 1574
Number of attempts: 2

Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 68
Position: #24 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Number Sort - 299 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #12 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Letterbox - 88 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 159
Position: #24 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #321 / 4144
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #501 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Return the cow - 71 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 118
Position: #24 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #525 / 1245
Number of attempts: 4

Create Leading Zeros - 205 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 58
Position: #69 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 313 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: #138 / 164
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat Cura settings - 108 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 79
Position: #17 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

snowflake fractal - 39 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 657
Position: #17 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 826 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #8 / 222
Number of attempts: 9

Swap assigned value - 581 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #138 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 520 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #303 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 760 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #252 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #146 / 436
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 384 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: 19
Position: #55 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 4136
Number of attempts: 8

Shift down - 191 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #58 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #364 / 1121
Number of attempts: 7

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: 13
Position: #248 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1900 / 3647
Number of attempts: 4

Counting in binary - 443 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 41
Position: #75 / 111
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1582 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: 12
Position: #287 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3088 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: #701 / 1060
Number of attempts: 1

Top X - 191 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: 35
Position: #63 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Number an outline - 246 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #30 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1193 / 3932
Number of attempts: 6

Pairs of numbers - 347 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: 33
Position: #49 / 131
Number of attempts: 4

Assign list - 169 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 45
Position: #32 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 985 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: #161 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 177 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 43
Position: #46 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1974 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: 27
Position: #226 / 469
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #201 / 724
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #239 / 756
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #520 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #732 / 1724
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 538 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #182 / 346
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 336 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #103 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #301 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1823 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: 19
Position: #376 / 482
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 973 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: #339 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #245 / 390
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 442 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #35 / 173
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat a C golf submission - 546 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #151 / 197
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 31
Position: #486 / 691
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11896 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1031 / 3481
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6250 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 36
Position: #422 / 1543
Number of attempts: 6

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