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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #382 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 6
RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 137
  • Position: #44 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 2104 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #303 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 6
Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #92 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4488 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #984 / 1101
  • 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: #133 / 302
  • Number of attempts: 12
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #311 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 5
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1147 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: 38
  • Position: #179 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 5
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 787 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #259 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4994 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #672 / 1627
  • Number of attempts: 11
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: 20
  • Position: #179 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 16
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #308 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #44 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 9
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #95 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 16
The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #258 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #118 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 13
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #306 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 10
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #735 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #181 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 12
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #130 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 16
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #136 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 12
Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #115 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #52 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 13
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #63 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 8
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #194 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 4
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 224 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #68 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #140 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #61 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 12
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #115 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 16
Shebangs for all - 1999 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: 17
  • Position: #362 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 14
A Simple One - 1051 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #515 / 665
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 532 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #87 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 12
Reformat a C golf submission - 604 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #175 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat most common surnames - 740 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #203 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1588 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #190 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 10
Add fold markers to a .c file - 640 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #101 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 12
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #238 / 794
  • Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2748 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7023 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #1222 / 1720
  • Number of attempts: 7
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