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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1356 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #228 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #293 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 3
Transpose a python matrix - 684 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #86 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 3
Inverting Lines - 1565 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #87 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 8
Python dataclasses - 798 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #29 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 11
swap number pairs - 1874 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #188 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 5
HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #89 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #422 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #141 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1736 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7757 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #796 / 1848
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4753 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #674 / 1575
  • Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 115 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #31 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3158 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #5 / 3932
  • Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #104 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 638 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #257 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 1
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 218 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #7 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #537 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 973 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: #516 / 633
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #161 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 2
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