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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1510 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 92
Position: #300 / 397
Number of attempts: 7

delete swap - 1534 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #163 / 482
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #223 / 542
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #386 / 667
Number of attempts: 7

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #274 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 1105 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #98 / 278
Number of attempts: 6

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 320 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #36 / 95
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #195 / 370
Number of attempts: 10

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 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: #139 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 297 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 39
Position: #77 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #246 / 1072
Number of attempts: 5

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 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: #301 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #69 / 292
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

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: #125 / 225
Number of attempts: 5

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: #2761 / 7364
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #328 / 1257
Number of attempts: 7

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: 10
Position: #252 / 1517
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3089 / 3842
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 43
Position: #259 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #203 / 569
Number of attempts: 15

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #170 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #599 / 3044
Number of attempts: 5

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #373 / 516
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #428 / 1144
Number of attempts: 7

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #309 / 827
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #117 / 226
Number of attempts: 11

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #617 / 700
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #271 / 635
Number of attempts: 12

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #654 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3089 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #461 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

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: 37
Position: #79 / 176
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #229 / 1258
Number of attempts: 3

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: 12
Position: #48 / 117
Number of attempts: 12

Hidden Message - 77 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 51
Position: #25 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 261
Number of attempts: 14

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #1941 / 2101
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #53 / 75
Number of attempts: 11

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #153 / 182
Number of attempts: 5

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: 12
Position: #293 / 662
Number of attempts: 8

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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 / 203
Number of attempts: 4

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #211 / 242
Number of attempts: 17

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #344 / 443
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 105 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 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 250
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #492 / 1186
Number of attempts: 13

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #273 / 343
Number of attempts: 3

Square numbers - 99 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #36 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3362 / 4161
Number of attempts: 5

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #146 / 158
Number of attempts: 4

Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 50
Position: #59 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #409 / 1129
Number of attempts: 7

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #128 / 351
Number of attempts: 10

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: 11
Position: #124 / 578
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: 15
Position: #504 / 1072
Number of attempts: 7

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2731 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

Draw the Go board - 140 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: #45 / 48
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #180 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #82 / 171
Number of attempts: 6

Checkerboard case pattern - 148 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #46 / 58
Number of attempts: 20

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #118 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

Simple Maths 2 - 29 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 40
Position: #13 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #490 / 738
Number of attempts: 9

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 40
Position: #193 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #978 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #296 / 356
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 69
Position: #194 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #152 / 500
Number of attempts: 13

Reverse and count - 456 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: #24 / 172
Number of attempts: 11

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 454
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 198 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 397
Position: #144 / 144
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #2221 / 3581
Number of attempts: 4

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