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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #426 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #107 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #89 / 709
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #409 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1187 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 294
Number of attempts: 6

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #83 / 384
Number of attempts: 19

HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #116 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4532 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #97 / 1107
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: 23
Position: #223 / 481
Number of attempts: 6

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1007 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #234 / 316
Number of attempts: 2

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: #97 / 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: 24
Position: #122 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #287 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 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: 35
Position: #172 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 26
Position: #3724 / 7442
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: 22
Position: #167 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

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: #64 / 204
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #519 / 1274
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #700 / 1546
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1335 / 3870
Number of attempts: 10

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #195 / 283
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #441 / 583
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1474 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #621 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

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: 36
Position: #220 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1939 / 3072
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 48
Position: #509 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1069 / 1169
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #583 / 876
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #796 / 1881
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #521 / 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: 13
Position: #175 / 641
Number of attempts: 9

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #88 / 129
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3148 / 4209
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #247 / 1269
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #190 / 267
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1439 / 2138
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: #325 / 677
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #271 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #503 / 1191
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2017 / 4189
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2493 / 3689
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #3518 / 3969
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1897 / 3739
Number of attempts: 1