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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #588 / 1114
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2450 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #337 / 485
Number of attempts: 9

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #269 / 319
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #52 / 313
Number of attempts: 4

Data reformat - 304 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 50
Position: #38 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #204 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #148 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #170 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #140 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 31
Position: #5708 / 7454
Number of attempts: 2

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 930 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #195 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #160 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #971 / 1276
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 21
Position: #1347 / 1551
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18798 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #3464 / 3880
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #208 / 285
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 881 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 74
Position: #137 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #487 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 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: 13
Position: #189 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #736 / 1899
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #717 / 860
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 330 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #68 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2495 / 3078
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 34
Position: #476 / 534
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #969 / 1173
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 29
Position: #771 / 886
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #1664 / 1886
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 841 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #197 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: 26
Position: #324 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1524 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: 21
Position: #388 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #138 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #669 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

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: 27
Position: #589 / 641
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #669 / 757
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1415 / 1631
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #617 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: 18
Position: #306 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3883 / 4218
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #569 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 25
Position: #1162 / 1270
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 38
Position: #257 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 25
Position: #2012 / 2144
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2240 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: #544 / 681
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #203 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #450 / 510
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1041 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #226 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 849 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #352 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #223 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2430 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #330 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 866 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: #197 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1092 / 1193
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3565 / 4195
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1033 / 1138
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #3326 / 3695
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 19
Position: #1005 / 1085
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3331 / 3971
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: 53
Position: #774 / 779
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1596 / 1750
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2705 / 3776
Number of attempts: 1

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