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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: #200 / 7425
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4810 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1087 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
  • Position: #137 / 753
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2009 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #419 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
  • Position: #162 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #673 / 2132
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #44 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #100 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 651 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #150 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #41 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1254 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #127 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #51 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #364 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #843 / 3685
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #211 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1963 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 4
Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #68 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 1
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #51 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 292 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #222 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #136 / 361
  • 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: 25
  • Position: #334 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #380 / 663
  • 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: #55 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #186 / 199
  • 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: 12
  • Position: #257 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #201 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 6
The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #204 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 2
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #90 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #391 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #194 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1051 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: #347 / 665
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 850 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #277 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
  • Position: #156 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1588 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #341 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 2
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