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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2484 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #10 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #68 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 6
Plotting some variables in python - 1660 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: 34
  • Position: #14 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 9
Migrated to Postgres! - 323 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #43 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1749 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #97 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 3
Inverting Lines - 1879 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #307 / 507
  • Number of attempts: 1
CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #16 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python dataclasses - 1127 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #82 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 1
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #36 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1386 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #24 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 3
Enumerate Bullets - 320 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: 20
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #32 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 8
swap number pairs - 2064 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #70 / 375
  • Number of attempts: 4
HS Final exam vimgolf - 894 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #14 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #30 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4450 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #222 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 3
Levenshtein distance - 105 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: 33
  • Position: #15 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: #8 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 950 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 695 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #11 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #6 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 8
xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 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: #6 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 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: #1 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 9
Capitalize the Names - 407 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: 21
  • Position: #3 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #11 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
C# function to F# - 30 entries

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

  • Best score: 101
  • Best player score: 112
  • Position: #6 / 11
  • Number of attempts: 1
C# data class to F# record - 79 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: 63
  • Position: #1 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 10
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: 21
  • Position: #3 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: #1830 / 7397
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #26 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 7
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #87 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add text at some column - 171 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #12 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #309 / 1265
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #39 / 1532
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #611 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 7
Right Align Part of the line - 133 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: 19
  • Position: #2 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1072 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #12 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 10
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #9 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 13
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #45 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #265 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 918 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: #70 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #717 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #385 / 845
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #42 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 5
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1213 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: 19
  • Position: #38 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #469 / 3058
  • Number of attempts: 8
Bad Copy Syntax - 2025 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #178 / 521
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #441 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #379 / 1157
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #106 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 4
citizen_hacks_2019_part2 - 25 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #8 / 10
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #288 / 1872
  • Number of attempts: 11
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #82 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 6
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #57 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #110 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #60 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 11
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #350 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #593 / 1615
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1359 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #317 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 2
Splits long lines in more readable ones - 13 entries

Those tests have too long lines. We have to split the to have more readable ones. This is based on a real project with Ruby and RSpec.

  • Best score: 54
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #1 / 6
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #218 / 1261
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #56 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #540 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 5
Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #6 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 8
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 94 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #34 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2209 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: #181 / 669
  • Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 144 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #62 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2028 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #37 / 499
  • Number of attempts: 9
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #76 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #145 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 3
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #53 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 973 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #119 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorder the groups - 1176 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #127 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #385 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #430 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 6
Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #10 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1208 / 4170
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #284 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1501 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1807 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 4
Alphabet soup - 428 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #29 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 5
Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #113 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #571 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1758 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6825 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #749 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 6
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