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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 455 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #53 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 285 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 2
Best player score: 8
Position: #20 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 183 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: #33 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 345 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 984 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #181 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 439 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #40 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 940 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #313 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 1522 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #248 / 435
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 613 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #102 / 185
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1296 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #210 / 363
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 161 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 121 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #42 / 54
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 666 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: #93 / 176
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 253 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #58 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4105 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #601 / 1015
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2007 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: #296 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 781 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #204 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1048 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #366 / 481
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #768 / 1241
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5959 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1463
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1015 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #122 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4639 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1468 / 1856
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2748 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #516 / 815
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 765 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #209 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 254 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #53 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1049 / 1121
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #399 / 760
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #513 / 686
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: 27
Position: #58 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #369 / 683
Number of attempts: 6

Interweave two blocks of text - 574 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: #198 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5430 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1227
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: 21
Position: #155 / 257
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 302 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #53 / 98
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 795 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 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 414 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #73 / 120
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 877 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 241
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2093 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: #485 / 641
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 598 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: #116 / 191
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 112 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #21 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

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: 30
Position: #123 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 556 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #214 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 279 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #35 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #654 / 1166
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 495 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 327
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 292 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #65 / 84
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #132 / 433
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 317 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #77 / 102
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: #209 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15728 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2341 / 4114
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #855 / 1112
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 957 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #126 / 340
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 - 698 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #123 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #214 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1948 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: #369 / 571
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 351 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #76 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3026 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: #641 / 1044
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1155 / 3919
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 345 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 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 358 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 179 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #20 / 69
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #149 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 174 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #43 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 476 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #103 / 181
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: #266 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 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: #299 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 424 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #131 / 183
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1004 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

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: #479 / 716
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #333 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

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: #235 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4917 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1701
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 521 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 274 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #128 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1828 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 625
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: 12
Position: #104 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 758 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #352 / 429
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 315 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #67 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 963 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #204 / 326
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #115 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1346 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #275 / 520
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #395 / 483
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1863 / 3410
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6004 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #915 / 1480
Number of attempts: 1