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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4231 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #324 / 1041
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 839 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #164 / 264
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1074 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #460 / 494
Number of attempts: 1

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: 31
Position: #5616 / 7301
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 842 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #203 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #152 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #623 / 1489
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2526 / 3811
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1746 / 1863
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #522 / 826
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #85 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1443 / 3022
Number of attempts: 17

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #576 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3496 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #697 / 784
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 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: #318 / 372
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 318 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #107 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1186 / 1572
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 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: #295 / 305
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3528 / 4140
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 820 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: #260 / 280
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #1854 / 2067
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #406 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2122 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: #532 / 649
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: #217 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 29
Position: #1156 / 1176
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 35
Position: #427 / 436
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #3812 / 4133
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #995 / 1120
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #654 / 686
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2721 / 3930
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1050 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #393 / 429
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #693 / 724
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #625 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1412 / 1722
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #530 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1194 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: #321 / 392
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 46
Position: #659 / 689
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 78
Position: #1498 / 1533
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.