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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1829 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: #122 / 307
Number of attempts: 2

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: #132 / 434
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #58 / 578
Number of attempts: 11

HS exam question - 1613 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 69
Position: #189 / 422
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat symbols in list - 1658 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #257 / 357
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: 12
Position: #218 / 567
Number of attempts: 2

Transpose a python matrix - 907 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #54 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

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: 45
Position: #35 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #175 / 333
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 394
Number of attempts: 10

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #304 / 1124
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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 / 496
Number of attempts: 4

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #20 / 332
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 753 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 / 229
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #33 / 176
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #208 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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 / 7513
Number of attempts: 3

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #36 / 272
Number of attempts: 4

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: 17
Position: #139 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #545 / 1293
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #288 / 1562
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #113 / 290
Number of attempts: 2

Separate the lines - 202 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #7 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 964 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 / 238
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1626 / 1914
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #315 / 867
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #53 / 266
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1566 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 / 471
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #379 / 712
Number of attempts: 2

Array propagate - 354 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #74 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #343 / 772
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #329 / 711
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1940 / 4255
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 39
Position: #81 / 276
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 420 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 / 187
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 180 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #21 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 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 / 223
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #757 / 1279
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1042 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 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 350 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 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #644 / 2157
Number of attempts: 5

Free hyphen! - 199 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: #70 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting a glossary - 138 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: #83 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #160 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #111 / 187
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #79 / 132
Number of attempts: 5

Align commas - 1134 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: #183 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1201 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #74 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Add Go XML to structure tags - 211 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 / 77
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 - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 461
Number of attempts: 8

Mirror Symmetry - 844 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #127 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 627 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #67 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 1200
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #188 / 284
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 340 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #58 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #222 / 456
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 - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1619 / 4224
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 237 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #49 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #584 / 1146
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #239 / 361
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2049 / 3715
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #249 / 710
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #876 / 1093
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2673 / 3991
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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: #189 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2584 / 3902
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #681 / 1889
Number of attempts: 2