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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #80 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #189 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 1629
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1879 / 4206
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 43
Position: #167 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #55 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #209 / 4188
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #108 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2681 / 3687
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #382 / 1079
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1953 / 3968
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #65 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 291 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: 5
Position: #78 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #75 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #86 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 295 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #107 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #130 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

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: 8
Position: #33 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 478 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #109 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

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: #236 / 480
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #622 / 755
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: 23
Position: #455 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #51 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #80 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #76 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #66 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #191 / 1749
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #154 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

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: #341 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1359 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #155 / 530
Number of attempts: 6

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #87 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #185 / 345
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #163 / 573
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1575 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: #311 / 423
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12929 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1124 / 3723
Number of attempts: 1