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Played Challenges

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 44
Position: #49 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33612 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: #1288 / 7416
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #218 / 1268
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18722 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #459 / 3860
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #547 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #277 / 850
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10850 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #915 / 3062
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3815 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #198 / 864
Number of attempts: 5

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1505 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #88 / 457
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #12 / 703
Number of attempts: 8

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 119
Number of attempts: 3

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: 13
Position: #201 / 753
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #174 / 701
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1064 / 4194
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #118 / 588
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #12 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #85 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #588 / 1264
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #350 / 2125
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 41
Position: #67 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #51 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #37 / 184
Number of attempts: 4

Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #106 / 447
Number of attempts: 11

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #364 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #86 / 444
Number of attempts: 6

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #716 / 4177
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: #95 / 585
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10660 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1240 / 3681
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #355 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #865 / 3961
Number of attempts: 4

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: #243 / 754
Number of attempts: 4

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: #103 / 777
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #354 / 780
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12760 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #519 / 3684
Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Long prime list - filter version - 34 entries

I've used the maximum input/diff/output size allowed by vimgolf to get a list of integers up to 1460 separated by newlines, and your goal is to only keep the lines containing primes. There are 232 of them I hope some of you will golf vimscript itself to create some function to run as a primality check for each line, which is a good exercise if you haven't done much vimscript yet! You're invited to also try copy-pasting and doing other non-smart text manipulation. Even more interesting would be to see a solution that uses text manipulation to do the filtering! Whether you use vimscript, normal-mode primality checks, or text manipulation, as long as the end result is valid, your answer will be valid! Let's see which method does better here. Best of luck!

Number Sort - 314 entries

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

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