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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #58 / 567
Number of attempts: 4

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1039 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #13 / 215
Number of attempts: 8

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #107 / 726
Number of attempts: 7

Plotting some variables in python - 1691 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #75 / 354
Number of attempts: 10

simple replacements - 1884 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 403
Number of attempts: 12

Python dataclasses - 1253 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 313
Number of attempts: 6

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 399 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 106
Number of attempts: 7

Enumerate Bullets - 339 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #13 / 93
Number of attempts: 7

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #29 / 394
Number of attempts: 9

HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #11 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

Easy modification of ssh config - 406 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 119
Number of attempts: 4

ssh config skills - 282 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 55
Position: #33 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #154 / 1124
Number of attempts: 8

Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: #118 / 496
Number of attempts: 9

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #33 / 332
Number of attempts: 7

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: #104 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 321 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 38
Position: #14 / 68
Number of attempts: 8

xrandr outputs and dashes - 753 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: #104 / 229
Number of attempts: 8

Capitalize the Names - 435 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 102
Number of attempts: 7

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 22
Position: #2338 / 7513
Number of attempts: 9

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #816 / 1562
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3144 / 3904
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #23 / 63
Number of attempts: 15

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 209 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #47 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 365 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 76
Number of attempts: 11

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1741 / 3098
Number of attempts: 5

Extract wireshark capture filter - 246 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #1373 / 1901
Number of attempts: 1

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #19 / 135
Number of attempts: 7

Number Sort - 328 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: 9
Position: #120 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3176 / 4255
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 553 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: 21
Position: #49 / 137
Number of attempts: 6

Todo list specification - 420 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: #82 / 187
Number of attempts: 4

Subnetting - 146 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #10 / 42
Number of attempts: 9

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #790 / 1279
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 146 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #53 / 81
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1703 / 2157
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #40 / 172
Number of attempts: 7

Around the clock - 220 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: #31 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #14 / 73
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 24
Position: #3994 / 4224
Number of attempts: 1

Suffix sort - 301 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 69
Number of attempts: 18

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #2637 / 3715
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 310 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #107 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Alphabet soup - 467 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #9 / 113
Number of attempts: 8

calculations - 343 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 39
Position: #30 / 72
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 30
Position: #3574 / 3902
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 74
Position: #1803 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1