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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1611 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 92
Position: #319 / 421
Number of attempts: 7

delete swap - 1880 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #163 / 575
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #243 / 622
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2532 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #415 / 725
Number of attempts: 7

Inverting Lines - 1956 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #290 / 524
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #109 / 311
Number of attempts: 6

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 394 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #40 / 105
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #205 / 393
Number of attempts: 10

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #153 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 39
Position: #84 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4595 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #262 / 1121
Number of attempts: 5

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: 27
Position: #321 / 494
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 753 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #69 / 321
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #190 / 535
Number of attempts: 4

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: #130 / 234
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #2796 / 7503
Number of attempts: 3

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 951 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #180 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #328 / 1291
Number of attempts: 7

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: #252 / 1559
Number of attempts: 12

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3122 / 3898
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules - 1101 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 43
Position: #272 / 289
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #210 / 592
Number of attempts: 15

Add string initializers to an enum - 901 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #178 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #599 / 3093
Number of attempts: 5

Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #387 / 541
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #428 / 1182
Number of attempts: 7

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #327 / 908
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 854 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #120 / 235
Number of attempts: 11

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #624 / 710
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #275 / 644
Number of attempts: 12

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #654 / 1667
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3104 / 4246
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #469 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 409 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: #79 / 185
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #229 / 1277
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 337 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #48 / 125
Number of attempts: 12

Hidden Message - 103 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 51
Position: #27 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 270
Number of attempts: 14

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #1983 / 2153
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #56 / 78
Number of attempts: 11

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #157 / 186
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2248 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: #293 / 686
Number of attempts: 8

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 680 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #58 / 212
Number of attempts: 4

Increment each number - 1063 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #221 / 258
Number of attempts: 17

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #353 / 459
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 121 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 63
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 262
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #492 / 1196
Number of attempts: 13

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #273 / 353
Number of attempts: 3

Square numbers - 132 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #40 / 44
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3401 / 4218
Number of attempts: 5

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #150 / 165
Number of attempts: 4

Subtraction - 201 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 50
Position: #61 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #412 / 1143
Number of attempts: 7

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #131 / 358
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 11
Position: #124 / 591
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 15
Position: #510 / 1091
Number of attempts: 7

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2759 / 3986
Number of attempts: 4

Draw the Go board - 171 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 93
Position: #49 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #180 / 235
Number of attempts: 4

Minimalist Limerick - 531 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #84 / 175
Number of attempts: 6

Checkerboard case pattern - 173 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #49 / 62
Number of attempts: 20

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #123 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

Simple Maths 2 - 48 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 40
Position: #17 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #509 / 775
Number of attempts: 9

Reverse and double space - 506 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 40
Position: #199 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #989 / 1759
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #296 / 365
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 69
Position: #198 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2090 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: 12
Position: #161 / 529
Number of attempts: 13

Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #27 / 179
Number of attempts: 11

Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 464
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 397
Position: #146 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2395 / 3879
Number of attempts: 4

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