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Played Challenges

ssh config skills - 127 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 82
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 97 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 3

Turn the x - 83 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 3546 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 1463 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 7

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 343 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 217 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 438 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 570 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 829 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 4

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 866 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 11

Alphabet soup - 241 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 486 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5675 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 969 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 777 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 51
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 1832 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 724 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 796 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 1880 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10213 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

ninja substitution - 1199 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 140 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7573 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 92 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 921 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 259 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2027 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 699 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 884 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 38
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3400 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 2

unknown command - 126 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2696 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3254 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2395 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 219 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 1

Back to the roots - 42 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1751 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 329 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Number of attempts: 3

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 201 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2772 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a list of numbers - 262 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph sort - 356 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap text in quotes - 315 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2744 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 6

From A to B - 533 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 38
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18173 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 138 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 942 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32602 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: 31
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 964 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4137 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 37
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 306 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 35
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 921 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1519 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 420 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 370 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11062 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15604 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5389 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3076 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 401 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4585 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10506 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 478 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 4

Top X - 185 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12671 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 532 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 3

lamb had a little Mary - 537 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 37
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 976 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

Sort by your own sum - 49 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 37
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 597 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 429 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2293 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 2

Calculate the table totals - 107 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 631 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: 22
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4859 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1842 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 236 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 586 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1718 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 386 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 176 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 281 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 107
Best player score: 169
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 530 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 870 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
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 420 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 534 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 540 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1042 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: 26
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 11327 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5779 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Number of attempts: 1