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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: 28
  • Position: #4131 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6312 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #653 / 1537
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10859 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #31 / 3064
  • Number of attempts: 4
Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #79 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #116 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #127 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #55 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #18 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 2
Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #16 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #102 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 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: 11
  • Position: #115 / 192
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #385 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #272 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #197 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #178 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 210 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #35 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #203 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3670 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #297 / 788
  • Number of attempts: 5
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