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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1791 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #119 / 299
Number of attempts: 2

Find fix point of cos - 1480 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: #132 / 432
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #58 / 576
Number of attempts: 11

HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 69
Position: #188 / 420
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #256 / 355
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1681 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #216 / 565
Number of attempts: 2

Transpose a python matrix - 901 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #54 / 139
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 336 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 45
Position: #35 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #174 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 393
Number of attempts: 10

Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #304 / 1120
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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
Position: #46 / 494
Number of attempts: 4

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #20 / 329
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: #80 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 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: 18
Position: #33 / 175
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #208 / 535
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #43 / 7498
Number of attempts: 3

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #36 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #137 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #544 / 1289
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #288 / 1559
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #112 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Separate the lines - 197 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #7 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 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: 9
Position: #77 / 235
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4848 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1620 / 1907
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #314 / 865
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #53 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1552 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #17 / 469
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #378 / 710
Number of attempts: 2

Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #73 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #340 / 765
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #327 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1938 / 4240
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 39
Position: #81 / 275
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 408 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
Position: #15 / 184
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 169 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #21 / 109
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 222
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #755 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #31 / 278
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 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: 12
Position: #13 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #643 / 2151
Number of attempts: 5

Free hyphen! - 191 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
Position: #69 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting a glossary - 134 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 9
Position: #81 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #160 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #110 / 186
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 525 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #78 / 129
Number of attempts: 5

Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #181 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #74 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Add Go XML to structure tags - 195 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #10 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Restore order to the alphabet - 209 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #32 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 458
Number of attempts: 8

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #125 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #67 / 160
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 1196
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #186 / 282
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #58 / 153
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1686 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #220 / 451
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #130 / 291
Number of attempts: 5

Line 'em up! - 426 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: 20
Position: #67 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1616 / 4216
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 223 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #48 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #581 / 1142
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1028 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #235 / 355
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2047 / 3710
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3541 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #247 / 707
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3191 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: 17
Position: #873 / 1088
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2668 / 3983
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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: 16
Position: #188 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2555 / 3865
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #673 / 1865
Number of attempts: 2