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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 774 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #84 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 719 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #32 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 384 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #61 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 830 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 1514 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #275 / 373
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 692 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #56 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1228 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #394 / 423
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 1850 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #297 / 526
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 718 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #117 / 221
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1472 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #229 / 400
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 205 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 148 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #46 / 65
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 782 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #110 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 270 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #61 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4197 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #612 / 1035
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2041 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: 28
Position: #305 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 829 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #213 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1067 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #366 / 490
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4484 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #772 / 1245
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6081 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1485
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1023 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #125 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4647 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1470 / 1861
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2779 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #522 / 823
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 829 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #227 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #55 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1056 / 1128
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3477 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #411 / 779
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2850 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #515 / 690
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: 27
Position: #59 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2520 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #372 / 688
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 527 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: 22
Position: #62 / 129
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 613 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: 29
Position: #202 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5484 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1241
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 922 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: 21
Position: #156 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #55 / 100
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 809 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: 13
Position: #152 / 277
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #134 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2119 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: 14
Position: #491 / 648
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 611 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: 15
Position: #118 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #23 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 825 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: 30
Position: #125 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 567 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #216 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 349 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #39 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4207 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #659 / 1174
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 517 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 337
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 299 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #66 / 85
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #133 / 436
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 324 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #78 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #215 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15827 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2351 / 4129
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 221 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3135 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #859 / 1118
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 982 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #128 / 346
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 112
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #123 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #215 / 292
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: #372 / 574
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #76 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: 16
Position: #651 / 1057
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12786 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1159 / 3928
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 347 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 32
Position: #48 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 187 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #21 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 571 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #150 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 177 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #43 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 490 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #107 / 185
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 637 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 349
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1527 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #301 / 429
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 440 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #132 / 189
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1044 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 427
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2386 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #482 / 723
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #341 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 668 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: #239 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4978 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1716
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 526 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 283 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #130 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1838 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 631
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1177 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: 12
Position: #104 / 387
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 811 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #359 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 353 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 438 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 991 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #207 / 334
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 608 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #119 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1405 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #286 / 535
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1238 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #410 / 499
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1877 / 3459
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6189 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #932 / 1524
Number of attempts: 1