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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 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: 12
Position: #34 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 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: 18
Position: #12 / 172
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1144 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #69 / 530
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: #2102 / 7447
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #25 / 262
Number of attempts: 9

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: 15
Position: #9 / 204
Number of attempts: 9

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #36 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #315 / 1274
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #91 / 1549
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #628 / 3875
Number of attempts: 8

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #140 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #49 / 155
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 583
Number of attempts: 3

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 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: 9
Position: #62 / 231
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4818 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1444 / 1898
Number of attempts: 1

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: #229 / 857
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #30 / 71
Number of attempts: 6

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #46 / 259
Number of attempts: 6

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #97 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #473 / 3074
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #187 / 530
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #754 / 1169
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #105 / 878
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #307 / 1881
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #116 / 231
Number of attempts: 7

multiple cursor alternative - 1521 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: 19
Position: #85 / 381
Number of attempts: 8

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 56
Position: #58 / 126
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1513 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: #132 / 460
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #87 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2916 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #62 / 705
Number of attempts: 8

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: #158 / 641
Number of attempts: 8

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #386 / 755
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #644 / 1631
Number of attempts: 2

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: #139 / 324
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1357 / 4213
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #319 / 589
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #219 / 1269
Number of attempts: 11

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: #93 / 272
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7952 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #539 / 2139
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 95 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #35 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #271 / 677
Number of attempts: 4

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 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: 15
Position: #120 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #78 / 507
Number of attempts: 10

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #75 / 249
Number of attempts: 7

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: #224 / 401
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: 14
Position: #68 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #159 / 449
Number of attempts: 5

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: 29
Position: #82 / 227
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #470 / 1192
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1007 / 4192
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #279 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

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: 12
Position: #235 / 586
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 250
Number of attempts: 10

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1497 / 3691
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 15
Position: #503 / 1079
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1086 / 3969
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: 22
Position: #436 / 779
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #259 / 532
Number of attempts: 3

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: #1854 / 3744
Number of attempts: 3