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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 102
  • Position: #342 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1633 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #77 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 7
hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #427 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 22
  • Position: #402 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18784 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1571 / 3878
  • Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #545 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1780 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 7
SQL to YAML - 52 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

  • Best score: 71
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #16 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #92 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 6
readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #100 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #483 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 6
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #65 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #105 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #48 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 14
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #389 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 15
  • Position: #413 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #263 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13093 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1238 / 3766
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1049 / 1778
  • Number of attempts: 4
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