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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 4999 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #238 / 1628
  • Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #42 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #98 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #28 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 10
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 14
  • Position: #32 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 4
Top X - 212 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: 21
  • Position: #16 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12942 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1226 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 10
Hole-in-one - 1018 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: 16
  • Position: #22 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #59 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 21
  • Position: #83 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #359 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #183 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 20
  • Position: #132 / 336
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #312 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1354 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #153 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12880 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #175 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 14
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