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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 612 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 190
Position: #141 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 425 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 96
Position: #92 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 981 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #242 / 320
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 1566 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 63
Position: #348 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 729 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 59
Position: #114 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1286 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 32
Position: #421 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 1900 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #480 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 180 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 59
Position: #36 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 221 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 6
Position: #140 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1055 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #166 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 242 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 49
Position: #50 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 803 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 47
Position: #192 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 292 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #85 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

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: 29
Position: #206 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #21 / 826
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 1950 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #408 / 501
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #1602 / 1844
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: 44
Position: #356 / 372
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #292 / 691
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #526 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 615 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #207 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #952 / 1243
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #126 / 135
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: 38
Position: #200 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1531 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 43
Position: #431 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #544 / 756
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 471 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #151 / 190
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1644 / 1722
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 537 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #309 / 345
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 950 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 58
Position: #167 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 418 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 55
Position: #147 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #613 / 635
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1184 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: 28
Position: #390 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 432 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #18 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #418 / 449
Number of attempts: 1

Thomas Hiron
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