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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 1574 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #212 / 452
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: #913 / 7275
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #697 / 1241
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #480 / 1857
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7682 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #112 / 1836
Number of attempts: 3

From argument to object - 1262 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: 21
Position: #333 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #187 / 686
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2801 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #218 / 625
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #485 / 1549
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 995 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: 17
Position: #271 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2394 / 4114
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 570
Number of attempts: 3

Learn some german verbs - 504 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #70 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 365 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #126 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

Stairstep digits - 245 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #88 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 66 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #23 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 798 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #226 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 255 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #81 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 340 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

Fun With The Diagonal - 97 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 216 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 74
Number of attempts: 7

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #222 / 410
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 111 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

Scrambled numbers - 772 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #67 / 179
Number of attempts: 8

Line under headers - 1918 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #319 / 472
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 229 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #36 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #312 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #107 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #302 / 1167
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #222 / 434
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2648 / 4116
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #958 / 1112
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #58 / 292
Number of attempts: 11

Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #189 / 422
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2295 / 3638
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1649 / 3919
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1966 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: 28
Position: #292 / 467
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1172 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: 12
Position: #81 / 386
Number of attempts: 6

Context insensitive completion 0 - 474 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: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #95 / 223
Number of attempts: 3