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Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 796 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #128 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Delete the last function argument in python. - 550 entries

Delete the last function argument in this python script.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #136 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Flip All Bits - 355 entries

Perform a bitwise NOT operation on each bit, meaning that bits that are 0 become 1, and those that are 1 become 0.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 36
Position: #38 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Find the devices that have no revoked time, and extract out the duration left on their leases. - 183 entries

Extract non-revoked devices and the duration of their leases.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 88
Position: #37 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Convert list of enums to list of localization terms - 204 entries

While making my game Piloteer, I had a large list of TaskTypes and needed to convert them to an equivalent list of localization terms, to be used when translating the game's text into different languages.

Best score: 75
Best player score: 128
Position: #46 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

From brakets to parens - 1266 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 37
Position: #153 / 284
Number of attempts: 2

π - 321 entries

1200 π chars

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #40 / 79
Number of attempts: 4

Create json from a .env file - 1658 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 55
Position: #153 / 407
Number of attempts: 2

Reordering properties - 1336 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 57
Position: #98 / 294
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and Tag - 708 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 79
Position: #70 / 153
Number of attempts: 6

Changing date formats - 735 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 63
Position: #65 / 207
Number of attempts: 4

YAML to dotenv - 1600 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #146 / 335
Number of attempts: 5

Change to ascending order - 540 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #36 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 474 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #77 / 171
Number of attempts: 3

Generate an entry for each month - 387 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

Best score: 27
Best player score: 40
Position: #40 / 97
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the git merge conflicts - 346 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

Best score: 36
Best player score: 58
Position: #57 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

The Fibonacci Spacer - 169 entries

Split the words, remove punctuation and add spaces before each line following the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 46
Position: #24 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 321 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 57
Position: #38 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 368 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

Best score: 2
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 121
Number of attempts: 4

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 662 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #100 / 152
Number of attempts: 3

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 318 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #107 / 120
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 871 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #73 / 239
Number of attempts: 4

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 294 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #44 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

Convert plain text into a markdown table - 102 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

Best score: 56
Best player score: 181
Position: #26 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Change readonly files - 117 entries

Try to write a file that was marked as read-only.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 38
Position: #20 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

extract struct tag in go - 157 entries

Can you extract all struct tags in the fewest keystrokes possible?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 43
Position: #25 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 106 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xc4jQO7ck&t=1429s

Best score: 49
Best player score: 96
Position: #27 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 294 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

Best score: 41
Best player score: 45
Position: #53 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 141 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 36
Position: #32 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 245 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

Best score: 57
Best player score: 69
Position: #54 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 478 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 45
Position: #57 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

Word completion - 305 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 52
Position: #43 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Fix timezone format - 351 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #64 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 360 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #42 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Remove adjacent duplicates - 718 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #79 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Move to corresponding lines - 324 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #55 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1814 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #158 / 306
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to one line - 888 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #71 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

Copy punctuation - 734 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

Best score: 19
Best player score: 37
Position: #93 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Change LaTex itemizations formats - 132 entries

Inspired by the way my professor formats their LaTeX assignments.

Best score: 43
Best player score: 107
Position: #19 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Column wise pasting - 262 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

Best score: 17
Best player score: 32
Position: #34 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting text - 343 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 45
Position: #62 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

Case matching substitution - 89 entries

Swap every "lorem" for "ipsum", keeping the letter cases the same.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 86
Position: #17 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Define Gray code states - 56 entries

List the states using Gray code and assign Gray code values to each state.

Best score: 54
Best player score: 116
Position: #14 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Hex to binary - 129 entries

Convert hexadecimal numbers into binary format.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 77
Position: #24 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Count words - 123 entries

Merge duplicates and count each word.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 64
Position: #18 / 27
Number of attempts: 3

String decompression - 43 entries

3a4b2c => aaabbbbcc. Start a new line when you exceed 79 columns.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 60
Position: #12 / 15
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse even lines - 44 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 25
Position: #11 / 14
Number of attempts: 2

Format a long line - 129 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #19 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Evil Numbers - 117 entries

Print the first 100 evil numbers https://oeis.org/A001969. This is an advert for code.golf https://code.golf/evil-numbers#viml

Best score: 25
Best player score: 161
Position: #25 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror image - 126 entries

Add the second eye

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #18 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Find anomalies - 166 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 50
Position: #28 / 45
Number of attempts: 3

Coordinate extraction - 67 entries

Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo

Best score: 43
Best player score: 71
Position: #15 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Morse - 181 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 92
Position: #27 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

New teacher - 1513 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #161 / 318
Number of attempts: 1

Truth Table to ModelSim - 66 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

Best score: 64
Best player score: 155
Position: #16 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 665 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #43 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 1146 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #141 / 310
Number of attempts: 3

Quicksort - 2111 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 24
Position: #288 / 472
Number of attempts: 3

EDN reformat - 1218 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #114 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 450 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 166
Position: #72 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 463 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #61 / 92
Number of attempts: 5

Populate 3D bone names list - 656 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #63 / 169
Number of attempts: 4

Remove line numbers - 784 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 32
Position: #160 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Find fix point of cos - 1485 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #272 / 434
Number of attempts: 2

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 503 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

Best score: 33
Best player score: 42
Position: #44 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 582 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #249 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 443 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 132
Position: #38 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #308 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 427 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #81 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 773 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 59
Position: #85 / 185
Number of attempts: 4

HS exam question - 1613 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 64
Position: #160 / 422
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat symbols in list - 1656 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #117 / 356
Number of attempts: 7

Fizzbuzz - 614 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 44
Best player score: 73
Position: #78 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

Substraction (bis) - 638 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #59 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Changing around text with citations - 362 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #64 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Poorly indented Python comments - 1350 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 38
Position: #149 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1484 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #327 / 483
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 661 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 48
Position: #93 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1884 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #396 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1295 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 37
Position: #102 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2681 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #257 / 624
Number of attempts: 3

Visual block training - 1118 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 35
Position: #110 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #213 / 567
Number of attempts: 3

Java to JavaScript - 302 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 87
Position: #41 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1035 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 214
Number of attempts: 6

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #353 / 726
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 908 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #120 / 276
Number of attempts: 3

Fill in the chess board - 980 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #83 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Learn to ask for :help - 596 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #95 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Plotting some variables in python - 1691 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #89 / 354
Number of attempts: 7

Transpose a python matrix - 905 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 40
Position: #70 / 140
Number of attempts: 4

Create a diamond comment - 356 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 57
Position: #58 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Lowercase first characters - 502 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #58 / 186
Number of attempts: 3

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 125 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 109
Position: #24 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Migrated to Postgres! - 349 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 32
Position: #93 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 247 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 50
Position: #40 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

simple replacements - 1877 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #147 / 402
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1959 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #241 / 525
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to MD format - 450 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 70
Position: #48 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 337 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 49
Position: #47 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1253 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #129 / 313
Number of attempts: 3

Count to 100 in word form - 161 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 82
Position: #26 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 399 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #58 / 106
Number of attempts: 5

RUST match with enum for Coin - 196 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 108
Position: #33 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #190 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1437 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #122 / 332
Number of attempts: 3

Staircase - 169 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 37
Position: #26 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 339 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #55 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 245 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #70 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #145 / 394
Number of attempts: 4

HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #89 / 245
Number of attempts: 3

Extend shell script - 156 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 60
Position: #31 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 400 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #69 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

ssh config skills - 282 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 54
Position: #31 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 342 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #40 / 60
Number of attempts: 4

C to python code snippet - 102 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 66
Position: #18 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Mr. Hacker - 99 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 479 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #93 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 343 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #45 / 85
Number of attempts: 4

Format the CSS - 168 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #20 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #498 / 1122
Number of attempts: 1

Levenshtein distance - 127 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #8 / 39
Number of attempts: 5

Satisfy the go linter - 2485 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: 21
Position: #211 / 495
Number of attempts: 3

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #224 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #269 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 321 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 61
Position: #50 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 731 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: 12
Position: #157 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 797 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: 20
Position: #84 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Capitalize the Names - 430 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #54 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #413 / 536
Number of attempts: 1

C# data class to F# record - 89 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

Best score: 63
Best player score: 92
Position: #18 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 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
Position: #92 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 952 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #183 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 660 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #130 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 163 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #40 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 180 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #41 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #772 / 1560
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 66 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 52
Best player score: 60
Position: #15 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Right Align Part of the line - 146 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #40 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #85 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

add line and index - 112 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 63
Position: #28 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 909 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 46
Position: #91 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 206 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #99 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 947 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
Position: #159 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #281 / 866
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 350 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #54 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #129 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1273 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #130 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1802 / 3096
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #280 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #881 / 1183
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #373 / 909
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 42 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #37 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 235 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #53 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part4 - 29 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 37
Best player score: 52
Position: #12 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part2 - 40 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 40
Best player score: 50
Position: #15 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #825 / 1899
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 38 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #12 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 34 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 57
Best player score: 74
Position: #10 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 38 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 39
Position: #11 / 14
Number of attempts: 3

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 147 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #42 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Triangular Numbers - 114 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #24 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

Hash staircase - 61 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #127 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 69
Position: #97 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #97 / 182
Number of attempts: 2

Convert Application Output to CSV - 226 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #49 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 562 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: 31
Position: #42 / 134
Number of attempts: 5

Letterbox - 162 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 60
Position: #25 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the bit - 141 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #44 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 65 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 56
Position: #18 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #146 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Triangle of arrows - 220 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #17 / 46
Number of attempts: 6

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 105 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #59 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 204 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #18 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2249 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
Position: #377 / 687
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 681 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #74 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 154 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #73 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat Cura settings - 143 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 69
Position: #19 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #208 / 515
Number of attempts: 2

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #66 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #95 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 94 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #16 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 213 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 68 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #52 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 257 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #30 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 867 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #288 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 256 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #61 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 302 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #99 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 64 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 48
Position: #16 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 411 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #48 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #93 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1199 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #133 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #33 / 148
Number of attempts: 4

unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #75 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 343 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #49 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Resort and deup a CSV list - 185 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 60
Position: #30 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Rule 110 - 57 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Best score: 43
Best player score: 70
Position: #13 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Pascal's Triangle - 42 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 90
Position: #19 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 39 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 58
Position: #10 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 49 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #13 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII-art Histogram - 334 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 76
Position: #48 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 56 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #43 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 449 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #60 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

calculations - 322 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 50
Position: #51 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

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Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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