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Played Challenges

ssh config skills - 282 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 82
Position: #55 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 479 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #115 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

Turn the x - 343 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #50 / 85
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #539 / 1122
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2485 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: #61 / 495
Number of attempts: 7

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #142 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #82 / 322
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 731 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: 15
Position: #187 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 797 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: 21
Position: #101 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #236 / 536
Number of attempts: 4

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 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: 22
Position: #77 / 235
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 31
Position: #5742 / 7509
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 660 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #140 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #901 / 1560
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2587 / 3902
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #212 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 909 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 51
Position: #106 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #423 / 593
Number of attempts: 3

Unsemantic linewrapping - 947 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: #146 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1474 / 1912
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #481 / 866
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #163 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10954 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2180 / 3097
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 542
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #450 / 1183
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #422 / 909
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #1424 / 1899
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #372 / 710
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #248 / 645
Number of attempts: 6

Convert Application Output to CSV - 226 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #51 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #656 / 1670
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 141 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3122 / 4253
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #264 / 595
Number of attempts: 5

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #156 / 275
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: #80 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 278 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #119 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Back to the roots - 74 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #319 / 1277
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 248 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #71 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 123
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #212 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 192 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #86 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #96 / 126
Number of attempts: 5

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #375 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #114 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2249 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: #302 / 687
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #274 / 515
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #53 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #150 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 867 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #361 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 38
Position: #81 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #76 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 605 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 38
Position: #157 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 37
Position: #1186 / 1197
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #310 / 354
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #344 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #202 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 426 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 35
Position: #106 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #223 / 243
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #143 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2007 / 4222
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #736 / 1145
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 473 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #139 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2491 / 3712
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 230 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #61 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1853 / 3988
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #102 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 97 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 37
Position: #25 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #124 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #256 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 37
Position: #109 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #330 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 449 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #71 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #398 / 776
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 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: 22
Position: #259 / 280
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #995 / 1761
Number of attempts: 2

Calculate the table totals - 165 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #23 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 326 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #68 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #195 / 657
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 719 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #158 / 201
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2098 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: 17
Position: #371 / 531
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1079 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: #511 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 327 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 169
Position: #130 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 489 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 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 705 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #367 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 561 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 32
Position: #138 / 182
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #395 / 541
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 206 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #139 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 646 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #65 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 822 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #114 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #392 / 455
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1917 / 3892
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1058 / 1882
Number of attempts: 1