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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 190
Position: #555 / 557
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 96
Position: #138 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #423 / 557
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 63
Position: #544 / 603
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1075 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 59
Position: #165 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

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: 32
Position: #534 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #622 / 709
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 59
Position: #43 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 329 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 6
Position: #194 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1402 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #210 / 324
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #68 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

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: 47
Position: #215 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #102 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

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: 29
Position: #223 / 262
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: 12
Position: #21 / 857
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #429 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #1637 / 1881
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: 44
Position: #365 / 381
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #298 / 704
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #537 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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: 30
Position: #211 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 264 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #125 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #973 / 1269
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #130 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

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: 38
Position: #205 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

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: 43
Position: #446 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #559 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #156 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1665 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #309 / 363
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 58
Position: #176 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 55
Position: #151 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #628 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 28
Position: #404 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #427 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

Thomas Hiron
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