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Played Challenges

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: 22
Position: #600 / 7420
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #75 / 3864
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #77 / 634
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #87 / 703
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #44 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #459 / 1624
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #15 / 322
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #689 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #35 / 1264
Number of attempts: 6

Simple addition - 326 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #26 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #203 / 2128
Number of attempts: 3

Double and switch - 43 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 19
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 77
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #70 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #99 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 52 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 71
Best player score: 72
Position: #3 / 22
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #86 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #101 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #13 / 95
Number of attempts: 7

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #60 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

ascii-art diamond - 44 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #2 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

No naked if allowed! - 39 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

Best score: 46
Best player score: 57
Position: #8 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Conway sequence - 26 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #10 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #118 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #436 / 4180
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #314 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #78 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #202 / 585
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1002 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1555 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

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: #438 / 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: #224 / 527
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #1 / 52
Number of attempts: 8