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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: 23
Position: #2711 / 7420
Number of attempts: 11

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #121 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #955 / 1268
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #87 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #194 / 579
Number of attempts: 17

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1428 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #436 / 851
Number of attempts: 6

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #138 / 258
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #381 / 3063
Number of attempts: 9

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #509 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #42 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #713 / 1876
Number of attempts: 7

From argument to object - 1508 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: #382 / 458
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #408 / 703
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: 17
Position: #634 / 753
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: #133 / 322
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1331 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #396 / 588
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #131 / 214
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #202 / 1264
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #151 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2219 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: 12
Position: #236 / 672
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #156 / 503
Number of attempts: 8

Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #198 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 243 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #44 / 78
Number of attempts: 10

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #71 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #91 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 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: 30
Position: #125 / 227
Number of attempts: 9

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #740 / 1190
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #269 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #180 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1914 / 4180
Number of attempts: 11

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #721 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #273 / 585
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1469 / 3683
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1786 / 3963
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #10 / 11
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 51 entries