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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 78
Position: #255 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1447 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #120 / 470
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #319 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 898 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #185 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 156
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4504 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #593 / 1104
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2393 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: 42
Position: #445 / 472
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 703 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #75 / 302
Number of attempts: 3

Capitalize the Names - 408 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #20 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1133 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #209 / 526
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33703 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: 24
Position: #3092 / 7438
Number of attempts: 4

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: 24
Position: #195 / 262
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: 30
Position: #189 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6325 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1065 / 1543
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #3529 / 3869
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1089 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #218 / 282
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: 251
Position: #154 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #503 / 582
Number of attempts: 1

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: #76 / 231
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #745 / 1897
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #746 / 855
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #218 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10877 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1732 / 3070
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #409 / 527
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3597 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1061 / 1167
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #510 / 871
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 45
Position: #1761 / 1880
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #185 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #238 / 381
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1509 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: 20
Position: #346 / 459
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 45
Position: #167 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #582 / 704
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: 28
Position: #596 / 641
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #466 / 755
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1302 / 1629
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #542 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 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: 21
Position: #310 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1422 / 4206
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #496 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #945 / 1268
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #158 / 267
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7933 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1422 / 2134
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2225 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: #299 / 676
Number of attempts: 2

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: 17
Position: #163 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2054 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 56
Position: #494 / 506
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 40
Position: #239 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 814 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #237 / 392
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 46
Position: #105 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #491 / 1191
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 30
Position: #4105 / 4188
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1035 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 36
Position: #98 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #567 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1536 / 3687
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 51
Position: #679 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #940 / 1079
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3679 / 3968
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #702 / 755
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2016 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #447 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #135 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12929 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3078 / 3723
Number of attempts: 1