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Tabbed Table to Python Array - 564 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: #58 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2185 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #21 / 623
Number of attempts: 1

Lowercase first characters - 450 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: 36
Position: #62 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1371 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #82 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1679 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #23 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 295 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #4 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1282 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #7 / 297
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 852 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: #37 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

Extend shell script - 103 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 46
Position: #17 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #41 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

ssh config skills - 246 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 55
Position: #28 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Mr. Hacker - 78 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: 19
Position: #7 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Python: Def to Lambda - 421 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #25 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 297 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Format the CSS - 115 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: 45
Position: #19 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 858 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #87 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 254 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 39
Position: #14 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 639 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: #3 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 738 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: #73 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1096 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 505
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1081 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: 35
Position: #159 / 219
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 866 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #79 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 617 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #15 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 147 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: 16
Position: #1 / 51
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 153 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #10 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6148 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #478 / 1504
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1233 / 3834
Number of attempts: 3

Right Align Part of the line - 111 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: 20
Position: #10 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 188 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #35 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2447 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #170 / 567
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 874 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: #124 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 297 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #31 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 29
Position: #43 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7791 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #555 / 1856
Number of attempts: 3

Triangular Numbers - 90 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #24 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 731 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #110 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2877 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #349 / 698
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 187 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #39 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1048 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #191 / 309
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 91 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 49
Position: #13 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 119 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #52 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1368 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #146 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Triangle of arrows - 152 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2140 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: #82 / 655
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 269 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #23 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #99 / 242
Number of attempts: 4

simple format (3) - 67 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #11 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 188 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: 13
Position: #29 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 234 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: #40 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #61 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1129 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #57 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 328 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #22 / 68
Number of attempts: 5

Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 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: 44
Position: #4 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII-art Histogram - 310 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: 41
Position: #30 / 55
Number of attempts: 6

calculations - 262 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 39
Position: #21 / 64
Number of attempts: 1