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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
Condensed Cases - 807 entries

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
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