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Played Challenges

Fix timezone format - 326 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: #63 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 322 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: #36 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Remove adjacent duplicates - 666 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #68 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #83 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 306
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1468 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: #231 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #242 / 576
Number of attempts: 3

Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #127 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #58 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 660 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: #98 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 570
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #470 / 619
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #79 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1680 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #525 / 564
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #398 / 722
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #145 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #301 / 522
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #59 / 93
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 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: #133 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #74 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #667 / 1117
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 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: #360 / 492
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #251 / 327
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #367 / 535
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #790 / 1284
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1557
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #136 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1493 / 1904
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #553 / 864
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #244 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #61 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1105 / 1179
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #463 / 901
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #524 / 707
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #65 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #377 / 704
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 547 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: #65 / 135
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 - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1274
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1010 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: #168 / 277
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 333 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #57 / 106
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 880 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 / 295
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 - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #139 / 261
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2243 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: #518 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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: #126 / 211
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 172 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #131 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #234 / 259
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 - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #672 / 1194
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 - 354 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #83 / 109
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: #224 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2394 / 4208
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 243 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #876 / 1140
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 - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #125 / 272
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 - 2025 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 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 371 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #78 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1174 / 3979
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 - 649 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #159 / 205
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 - 1620 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 / 450
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 - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #509 / 771
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #357 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 732 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: #249 / 278
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1756
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 364
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 - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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 / 413
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #364 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #79 / 145
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 - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #215 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 795 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #142 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #340 / 639
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #492 / 601
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1957 / 3846
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1045 / 1847
Number of attempts: 1