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Played Challenges

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #393 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #7 / 708
Number of attempts: 3

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #8 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 897 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #132 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4479 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #549 / 1097
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 954 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #284 / 305
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 700 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 7
Position: #271 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #449 / 524
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: 34
Position: #6283 / 7420
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #835 / 1537
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #201 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 37
Position: #93 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1558 / 3063
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #443 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #595 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #586 / 865
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #1284 / 1876
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 41
Position: #105 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #467 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #64 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #185 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #92 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #52 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2219 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: 15
Position: #515 / 672
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2044 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 37
Position: #400 / 503
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 7
Position: #148 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #281 / 391
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 243 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #67 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #108 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 50
Position: #124 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 74
Position: #439 / 448
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 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: 36
Position: #188 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #18 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 55
Position: #47 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 51 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #10 / 45
Number of attempts: 2

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