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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 712 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #21 / 159
Number of attempts: 12

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #919 / 7301
Number of attempts: 13

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #214 / 1489
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #830 / 3811
Number of attempts: 9

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2792 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #233 / 826
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #570 / 3022
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 45
Position: #614 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #765 / 1127
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #748 / 1844
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 766 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #115 / 219
Number of attempts: 4

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: 20
Position: #185 / 372
Number of attempts: 9

From argument to object - 1441 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 441
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #360 / 691
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #64 / 630
Number of attempts: 18

Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #250 / 736
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #652 / 1572
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #271 / 689
Number of attempts: 7

comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #141 / 305
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #899 / 4140
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #136 / 265
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #68 / 1243
Number of attempts: 18

Adam's challenge - 928 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #121 / 261
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #281 / 2067
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #70 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #284 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 958 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #139 / 237
Number of attempts: 4

Put the months in order - 922 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 48
Position: #115 / 156
Number of attempts: 3

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: #84 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 577 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #96 / 239
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #485 / 1176
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #101 / 436
Number of attempts: 11

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #286 / 1120
Number of attempts: 5

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: 12
Position: #230 / 574
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1130 / 3646
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1580 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: 9
Position: #29 / 506
Number of attempts: 11

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1097 / 3930
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 638 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #255 / 350
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1973 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: #122 / 468
Number of attempts: 13

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #59 / 724
Number of attempts: 12

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #214 / 756
Number of attempts: 11

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #172 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 4996 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #617 / 1723
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #100 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

expand a list comprehension (python) - 291 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #15 / 104
Number of attempts: 14

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #51 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #353 / 449
Number of attempts: 4

Increment, increment, increment.... - 606 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #35 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 486 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: #106 / 228
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 11865 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #478 / 3472
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 39
Position: #715 / 1533
Number of attempts: 3