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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #117 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4994 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #272 / 1627
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 41
  • Position: #62 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 651 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #155 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #129 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 356 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #55 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1637 / 3685
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #357 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 12
  • Position: #307 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: #398 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3371 / 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: #170 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #107 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 292 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #119 / 223
  • 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: #197 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #8 / 197
  • 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: #246 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 6
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #229 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #441 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #372 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #628 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #51 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1565 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #212 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #125 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #266 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #187 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #174 / 336
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #97 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat long lines - 358 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #113 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #130 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #318 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #158 / 406
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 850 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #282 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 689 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #276 / 409
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 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: 8
  • Position: #142 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #70 / 236
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #171 / 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: 27
  • Position: #471 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1467 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #355 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add fold markers to a .c file - 640 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #139 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1530 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: 23
  • Position: #290 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #351 / 794
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flodder-challenge - 1282 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #177 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1185 / 3707
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7023 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #626 / 1720
  • Number of attempts: 2
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