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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 1515 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #323 / 432
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 372 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #107 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1048 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #446 / 481
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32903 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: 27
Position: #3714 / 7270
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18377 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1579 / 3787
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4639 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1622 / 1856
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2098 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #163 / 622
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2794 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #388 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #445 / 683
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11136 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2153 / 4112
Number of attempts: 1

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 156 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #57 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #97 / 257
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap text in quotes - 338 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #105 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7519 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1245 / 2043
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 147 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: 11
Position: #60 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 686 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 51
Position: #85 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #166 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 247 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #59 / 89
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: 22
Position: #218 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

Manual SQL - 114 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 49
Best player score: 66
Position: #25 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 276 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #83 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 808 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: 35
Position: #172 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #798 / 1166
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 495 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #291 / 327
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #378 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 958 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #159 / 279
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 317 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #74 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 388 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #112 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15727 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2112 / 4113
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #935 / 1112
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 957 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #239 / 340
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 431 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #130 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #371 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 351 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #75 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle puzzle - 307 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #43 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3068 / 3637
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1547 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: #394 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 627 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #212 / 343
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #454 / 716
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #234 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 521 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #259 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 15
Position: #268 / 382
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1141 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #226 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11619 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2088 / 3408
Number of attempts: 2

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