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Played Challenges

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #273 / 1274
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1501 / 3875
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #35 / 583
Number of attempts: 14

V to the i - 4818 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1256 / 1898
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #156 / 857
Number of attempts: 9

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: 19
Position: #18 / 101
Number of attempts: 7

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #257 / 635
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #72 / 641
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #585 / 1631
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #105 / 166
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1130 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: #64 / 324
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2848 / 4213
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 46
Position: #124 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

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: 37
Position: #49 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1046 / 1269
Number of attempts: 9

Adam's challenge - 992 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: 18
Position: #80 / 272
Number of attempts: 11

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 869 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: #129 / 293
Number of attempts: 6

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #63 / 260
Number of attempts: 8

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #275 / 425
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2227 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: 24
Position: #634 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 831 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #322 / 1192
Number of attempts: 9

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #125 / 446
Number of attempts: 9

I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2933 / 4192
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #666 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 37
Position: #584 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #205 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1388 / 3691
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #995 / 3969
Number of attempts: 8

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: 8
Position: #100 / 446
Number of attempts: 11

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: 22
Position: #132 / 480
Number of attempts: 15

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #121 / 446
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #559 / 757
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #411 / 779
Number of attempts: 9

Switch function arguments - 2147 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #165 / 666
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #483 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #40 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1771 / 3744
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #266 / 1761
Number of attempts: 12