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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4117 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #317 / 1018
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #159 / 250
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1051 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #449 / 483
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32962 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: 31
Position: #5599 / 7276
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 831 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #199 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 596 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #147 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5977 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #618 / 1468
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2512 / 3793
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1741 / 1857
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #513 / 815
Number of attempts: 6

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: 32
Position: #82 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10545 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1427 / 2989
Number of attempts: 17

Split line with dots - 2103 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #575 / 623
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #679 / 764
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #316 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 311 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #103 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1169 / 1550
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #286 / 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: #3504 / 4114
Number of attempts: 4

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: 20
Position: #255 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7537 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #1838 / 2049
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #402 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2095 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #526 / 642
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: 49
Position: #212 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 29
Position: #1147 / 1167
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 35
Position: #425 / 434
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #3797 / 4116
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3122 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #989 / 1113
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #653 / 685
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2713 / 3919
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #385 / 420
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2377 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #689 / 719
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 1985 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #619 / 628
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4945 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1401 / 1708
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1905 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #523 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #318 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 46
Position: #639 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 78
Position: #1455 / 1486
Number of attempts: 1

Shunichi Kanade
Twitter: @shunkana

started in dot-coms during bubble years, crash, switched to finance industry, back to software industry because I love it. Java mostly, Ruby is my passion.