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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #274 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2494 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #105 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #176 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4468 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #609 / 1095
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33591 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: #2916 / 7410
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #555 / 1536
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1437 / 3858
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4798 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #951 / 1891
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10848 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #225 / 3061
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3574 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #292 / 1158
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #215 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #432 / 752
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #386 / 1621
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #415 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11424 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #346 / 4186
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #634 / 1263
Number of attempts: 4

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: 12
Position: #21 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

JSON string rotation - 60 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #13 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2209 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #382 / 669
Number of attempts: 2

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #27 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #18 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Entries sort - 90 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #9 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #11 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 559 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #214 / 346
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #155 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #109 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #261 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #12 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 47
Position: #20 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #121 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #54 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #93 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #44 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #15 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #68 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 54
Position: #14 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 61
Position: #21 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 39
Position: #43 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 800 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #158 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #71 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2070 / 4175
Number of attempts: 3

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #54 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #71 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #65 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #536 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #201 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #83 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: 14
Position: #336 / 582
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #341 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #549 / 3679
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1624 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: #401 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3157 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: #857 / 1076
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #470 / 3960
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 290 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: #93 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #58 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #146 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #143 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #193 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #221 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #24 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #50 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #359 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #482 / 754
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2125 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #486 / 659
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1047 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #228 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5068 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1167 / 1747
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 472 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #137 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #2 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 14
Position: #234 / 405
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1991 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: 14
Position: #228 / 514
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1045 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: #410 / 660
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #30 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 405
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #439 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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: 7
Position: #92 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1376 / 3671
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6901 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 43
Position: #1031 / 1690
Number of attempts: 1

Elizabeth
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