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Played Challenges

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: 82
  • Position: #537 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #323 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 11
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #340 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #203 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 800 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #298 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #69 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 752 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #209 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1600 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #221 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1480 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #274 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 662 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #89 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1599 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #321 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 1056 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #166 / 325
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3763 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #248 / 807
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1343 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #106 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1994 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #1304 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 6
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