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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4485 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #793 / 1099
Number of attempts: 2

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: 22
Position: #1420 / 7422
Number of attempts: 9

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #970 / 1539
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1816 / 3865
Number of attempts: 4

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #38 / 65
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #319 / 579
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4806 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #970 / 1894
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #76 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2322 / 3065
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 770 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #184 / 412
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #723 / 753
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #782 / 1625
Number of attempts: 5

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #98 / 129
Number of attempts: 3

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #21 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1606 / 4199
Number of attempts: 10

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #374 / 588
Number of attempts: 5

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: 42
Position: #117 / 380
Number of attempts: 9

Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1355 / 2129
Number of attempts: 3

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #200 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #20 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1485 / 4182
Number of attempts: 5

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #58 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #521 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #211 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 50
Position: #60 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #197 / 300
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 368 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #45 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1955 / 3684
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #159 / 518
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1910 / 3964
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #151 / 304
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 413 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #171 / 222
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #235 / 361
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: 9
Position: #183 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #232 / 480
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #387 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #597 / 663
Number of attempts: 3

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: 17
Position: #231 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #254 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

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: 23
Position: #149 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #335 / 653
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 155
Position: #52 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 458
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #263 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 532 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #76 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #98 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 771 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #220 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Get rid of html tags - 400 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #93 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #532 / 3698
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7010 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 44
Position: #1102 / 1713
Number of attempts: 2

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