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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4115 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #610 / 1017
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2013 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #262 / 405
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 795 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #217 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #3571 / 7275
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #1102 / 1241
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5975 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #996 / 1467
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #2968 / 3793
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 25
Position: #493 / 561
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1308 / 1857
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #526 / 815
Number of attempts: 5

Swap the operands under comparison - 258 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #71 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10545 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2299 / 2989
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2098 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 45
Position: #610 / 622
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #830 / 1121
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #552 / 764
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7682 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #637 / 1836
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: 37
Position: #348 / 369
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: 20
Position: #307 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #633 / 686
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #455 / 625
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2218 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #724 / 729
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1323 / 1549
Number of attempts: 1

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 476 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 45
Position: #107 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2500 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #523 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #268 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3501 / 4114
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #478 / 570
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 57
Position: #240 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

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: 37
Position: #112 / 125
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #676 / 1228
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 916 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: 30
Position: #248 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7535 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1706 / 2048
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 881 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #207 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #265 / 410
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 772 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #165 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Align commas - 1040 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: 26
Position: #227 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 604 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #181 / 192
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 31
Position: #368 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 818 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: 36
Position: #183 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #836 / 1167
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #357 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 958 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 51
Position: #275 / 279
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15745 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3260 / 4116
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #987 / 1112
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 962 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #338 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1951 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: #360 / 572
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3134 / 3638
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #434 / 685
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1553 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: 15
Position: #435 / 500
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: #897 / 1045
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3268 / 3919
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 168 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 68
Position: #47 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2369 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #573 / 717
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #498 / 735
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 1982 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #485 / 627
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4937 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1498 / 1707
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1897 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #396 / 624
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1831 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #550 / 626
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2632 / 3418
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 59
Position: #1386 / 1486
Number of attempts: 2