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Played Challenges

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: #448 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #52 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #29 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4650 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #358 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #160 / 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: #439 / 1572
  • Number of attempts: 5
Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #6 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #122 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #626 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #21 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #25 / 1243
  • Number of attempts: 8
underscore_to_camelCase - 154 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #20 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #178 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 6
Free hyphen! - 156 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #10 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #158 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #13 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 4
Inner hyphens - 124 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #53 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #33 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 6
Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #5 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 8
Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #31 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1046 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #17 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 6
Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #60 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 7
From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #9 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #200 / 1176
  • Number of attempts: 6
camel riding - 757 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #50 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #57 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #393 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #158 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 11
  • Position: #67 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #949 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #113 / 686
  • Number of attempts: 11
quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: 16
  • Position: #618 / 1057
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #665 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 7
REDRUM - 147 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #17 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1050 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #94 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #413 / 1722
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #411 / 3471
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6223 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #253 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 9
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