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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #250 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #402 / 1624
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #78 / 701
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #56 / 273
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #648 / 1264
Number of attempts: 7

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #6 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Entries sort - 90 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #15 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #222 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 152
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #172 / 444
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #95 / 290
Number of attempts: 7

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #19 / 114
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #94 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 83
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

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: 12
Position: #32 / 247
Number of attempts: 6

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #75 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #113 / 1137
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #28 / 354
Number of attempts: 6

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #79 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #35 / 300
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 11
Position: #46 / 585
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #156 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #108 / 250
Number of attempts: 7

Split the words - 368 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 40
Position: #83 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #769 / 3683
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 14
Position: #202 / 1078
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #76 / 304
Number of attempts: 7

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #78 / 168
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #296 / 480
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #235 / 754
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 777
Number of attempts: 12

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #368 / 1748
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 650
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1050 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #411 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #209 / 527
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #92 / 412
Number of attempts: 6

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #138 / 315
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #123 / 1706
Number of attempts: 12