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Played Challenges

Fix timezone format - 282 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #57 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 258 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #31 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Remove adjacent duplicates - 559 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #58 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

New teacher - 1357 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #78 / 282
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 295
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1426 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #229 / 422
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #234 / 565
Number of attempts: 3

Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #125 / 223
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #57 / 476
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #97 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1801 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 561
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2605 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #459 / 606
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1089 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #77 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #520 / 559
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #392 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #144 / 272
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1923 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #298 / 516
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #58 / 92
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 906 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #130 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #72 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4563 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #666 / 1113
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2448 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: 28
Position: #355 / 484
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1008 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #248 / 317
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #367 / 533
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #788 / 1275
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1551
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #135 / 285
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1490 / 1899
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #550 / 859
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 875 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #241 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 304 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #59 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1098 / 1172
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #457 / 882
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #524 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 339 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #63 / 120
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #377 / 701
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 533 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: 22
Position: #64 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #207 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1270
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1001 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #167 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #57 / 105
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #152 / 294
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #76 / 125
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #139 / 260
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2234 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: 14
Position: #516 / 679
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 663 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: 15
Position: #124 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 154 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 859 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #129 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #233 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 397 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #41 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #670 / 1192
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #68 / 88
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #136 / 446
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #81 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #223 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2386 / 4194
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #875 / 1138
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #131 / 354
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #125 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #220 / 301
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 14
Position: #378 / 586
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 364 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #78 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 16
Position: #667 / 1085
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1170 / 3970
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 364 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 32
Position: #51 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 211 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #23 / 76
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #156 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #44 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #110 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #313 / 447
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #135 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 447
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #504 / 759
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #356 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: 19
Position: #246 / 275
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1750
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #136 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 655
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1258 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #104 / 409
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #363 / 461
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #79 / 143
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #214 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #136 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1646 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #325 / 607
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #477 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1938 / 3765
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7228 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 42
Position: #1015 / 1777
Number of attempts: 1