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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 644 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: 64
Position: #100 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1173 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #69 / 204
Number of attempts: 7

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 41
Position: #48 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1527 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #45 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1179 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 39
Position: #98 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #182 / 542
Number of attempts: 7

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1578 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #293 / 525
Number of attempts: 2

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #60 / 203
Number of attempts: 12

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #448 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 905 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #62 / 175
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #367 / 498
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 271 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 50
Position: #32 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 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: #54 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #410 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 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: 28
Position: #124 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 23
Position: #2667 / 7364
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #626 / 1257
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #586 / 1517
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #965 / 3842
Number of attempts: 10

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #78 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #334 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 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: 11
Position: #152 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1386 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #517 / 840
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #124 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #65 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1493 / 3044
Number of attempts: 7

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #276 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #463 / 630
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #883 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #659 / 827
Number of attempts: 2

Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 27
Position: #26 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #494 / 1865
Number of attempts: 3

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 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: #25 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Triangular Numbers - 90 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #22 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #131 / 226
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 22
Position: #229 / 376
Number of attempts: 3

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 66
Position: #85 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

From argument to object - 1474 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: 19
Position: #299 / 450
Number of attempts: 4

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #104 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #77 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #656 / 744
Number of attempts: 1

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #10 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1016 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 305 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #151 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #535 / 695
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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: #199 / 314
Number of attempts: 4

Letterbox - 91 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 56
Position: #20 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the bit - 120 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2884 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 531 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #61 / 131
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 385 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #146 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #34 / 364
Number of attempts: 4

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #109 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #106 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #141 / 209
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #699 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

Simple addition - 310 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #105 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 957 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: 22
Position: #191 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #54 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #183 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 261 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #61 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 303 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #122 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #67 / 120
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #163 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #803 / 2101
Number of attempts: 4

C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 48
Position: #81 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #69 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #150 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #65 / 115
Number of attempts: 5

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #118 / 182
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #69 / 125
Number of attempts: 5

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #43 / 94
Number of attempts: 6

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #13 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 147 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 51
Position: #26 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2165 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: 14
Position: #471 / 662
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #55 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat Cura settings - 112 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: 75
Position: #16 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #275 / 496
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 272 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #70 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #133 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #58 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #313 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #112 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 45 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: 56
Position: #14 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #54 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 932 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 50
Position: #123 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 30
Position: #240 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #87 / 135
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #255 / 443
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #165 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #92 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

Simple format (2) - 334 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #41 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #661 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #190 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #200 / 440
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #173 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #216 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 788 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #207 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2297 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #704 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #269 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #368 / 578
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #394 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #179 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #272 / 692
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 16
Position: #652 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2472 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

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: 58
Position: #23 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Rule 110 - 35 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: 51
Position: #5 / 11
Number of attempts: 2

Santa's naughty / nice list - 78 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #4 / 24
Number of attempts: 5

If-then-else regexp - 43 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

Best score: 37
Best player score: 46
Position: #10 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #290 / 439
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 177 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 45
Position: #33 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #317 / 441
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabet soup - 419 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 38
Position: #70 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #482 / 737
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #135 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #634 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 15
Position: #129 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #86 / 185
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #305 / 640
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 41
Position: #123 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #43 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #174 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1912 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #373 / 500
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1001 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #503 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #444 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #202 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #357 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #224 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #220 / 384
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #454 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1746 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

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 ;-)

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 644 entries

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Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, Paragliding, Diving, Android, Linux, Ruby, Photography, Mycology, UND MEHR...

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 644 entries

Poorly indented Python comments - 1173 entries

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 entries

delete swap - 1527 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1179 entries

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1578 entries

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Fill in the chess board - 905 entries

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

Data reformat - 271 entries

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries

Swap values - 4543 entries

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

One number per line - 18616 entries

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries

V to the i - 4751 entries

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries

Box it - 7828 entries

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 entries

Triangular Numbers - 90 entries

Cool or not? - 793 entries

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

From argument to object - 1474 entries

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Array propagate - 319 entries

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

Number Sort - 305 entries

That hyphen - 2556 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries

Letterbox - 91 entries

Flip the bit - 120 entries

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Learn some german verbs - 531 entries

Todo list specification - 385 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Simple addition - 310 entries

Adam's challenge - 957 entries

Create a table - 325 entries

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Nesting SASS - 261 entries

Combines all items - 303 entries

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

Vice versa - 7805 entries

C Reformatting - 688 entries

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries

Python challenge - 147 entries

One to Ten - 2165 entries

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries

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