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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: 10
Position: #347 / 1114
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #175 / 319
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #498 / 533
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: #5715 / 7455
Number of attempts: 9

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: 28
Position: #221 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

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: 22
Position: #163 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

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: 11
Position: #650 / 1551
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2564 / 3882
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1780 / 1899
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #548 / 860
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 311 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #93 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1459 / 3078
Number of attempts: 17

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #582 / 635
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: 31
Position: #784 / 886
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: 28
Position: #331 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 343 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #113 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1234 / 1631
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: 22
Position: #317 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3587 / 4218
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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: 20
Position: #272 / 294
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #1915 / 2144
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #421 / 429
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: 17
Position: #559 / 681
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: 49
Position: #224 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 29
Position: #1173 / 1193
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 35
Position: #436 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 22
Position: #3869 / 4195
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1010 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #673 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2754 / 3971
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #407 / 448
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2574 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #727 / 761
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 26
Position: #658 / 669
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1428 / 1750
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #542 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #332 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 46
Position: #777 / 816
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7261 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 78
Position: #1728 / 1792
Number of attempts: 1

Shunichi Kanade
Twitter: @shunkana

started in dot-coms during bubble years, crash, switched to finance industry, back to software industry because I love it. Java mostly, Ruby is my passion.