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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #856 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 17
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #181 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 14
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1400 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 13
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #214 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 10
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #225 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #114 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #178 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #51 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 13
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #348 / 753
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #852 / 1624
  • Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #152 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2398 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #34 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #131 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #54 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #472 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #28 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 7
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #63 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #22 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: 15
  • Position: #186 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #771 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 10
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: 29
  • Position: #70 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1095 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #55 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #74 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #72 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #287 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 16
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #287 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #553 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #198 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 7
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #205 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #81 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #386 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #43 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2185 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #276 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1578 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 13
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 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: #310 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #304 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #297 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 9
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #463 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #124 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #82 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #271 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 9
Shebangs for all - 1999 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #236 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 7
The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #380 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1454 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #363 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3670 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #122 / 788
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #468 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 12
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6984 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #264 / 1708
  • Number of attempts: 10
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