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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4867 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #261 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 3
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1273 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #193 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2247 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5132 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #975 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3396 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #203 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5732 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #733 / 1278
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 345 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: #127 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2095 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #280 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign numbers to fields - 121 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #208 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cartesian product - 274 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #81 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #72 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 584 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #9 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2506 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #910 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 902 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #431 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1832 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1666 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: 13
  • Position: #402 / 524
  • 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: 16
  • Position: #526 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 362 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #86 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13037 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1372 / 3989
  • Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #54 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hole-in-one - 1040 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: #162 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 3
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 188 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: 25
  • Position: #69 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 310 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: #71 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 2
A simple change - 481 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #94 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 684 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #118 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 123 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #45 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1154 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #36 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #220 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #317 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5122 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1327 / 1763
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 582 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #191 / 367
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1375 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: 21
  • Position: #149 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1955 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #148 / 660
  • Number of attempts: 4
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #123 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1294 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #300 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1080 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: #333 / 678
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #271 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #149 / 541
  • Number of attempts: 5
Context insensitive completion 0 - 600 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #207 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1090 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #186 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1785 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #510 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1584 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #371 / 613
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: 21
  • Position: #233 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13612 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1143 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 3
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