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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1064 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #221 / 289
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2005 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #102 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

EDN reformat - 1162 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #70 / 166
Number of attempts: 19

Remove line numbers - 736 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #102 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #200 / 314
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2557 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #350 / 558
Number of attempts: 3

Many duplicates - 1451 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #422 / 471
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 57
Position: #530 / 603
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #320 / 709
Number of attempts: 5

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 43
Position: #107 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1802 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #266 / 390
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #214 / 316
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 735 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #248 / 311
Number of attempts: 7

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: 20
Position: #81 / 172
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1144 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #494 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #110 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1124 / 2140
Number of attempts: 6

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #78 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #97 / 118
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #110 / 256
Number of attempts: 7

VimGolfNight - 570 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #292 / 350
Number of attempts: 5

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #154 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #130 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #132 / 271
Number of attempts: 8

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1606 / 3691
Number of attempts: 2

Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #34 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 161 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #92 / 94
Number of attempts: 3

Changing URL path in CSS - 138 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 69
Position: #59 / 62
Number of attempts: 5

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #143 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 468 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #132 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #280 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 28
Position: #505 / 519
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1057 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: #568 / 667
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 334
Position: #142 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 439 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 49
Position: #132 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 696 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #65 / 411
Number of attempts: 7

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #90 / 187
Number of attempts: 7

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #230 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13017 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 29
Position: #3414 / 3745
Number of attempts: 2