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Played Challenges

Fix timezone format - 372 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: #68 / 120
Number of attempts: 1

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 363 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: #39 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Remove adjacent duplicates - 727 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #72 / 182
Number of attempts: 3

New teacher - 1519 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #88 / 319
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 1151 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 311
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1485 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 / 434
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2668 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 / 578
Number of attempts: 3

Poorly indented Python comments - 1350 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #127 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #59 / 484
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 661 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: #99 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 580
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2681 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #474 / 624
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1118 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #79 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #528 / 567
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #401 / 726
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #146 / 277
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #303 / 526
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 256 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #59 / 95
Number of attempts: 5

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: 27
Position: #134 / 245
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 356 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #76 / 86
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #672 / 1124
Number of attempts: 2

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: 28
Position: #362 / 496
Number of attempts: 1

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: 10
Position: #253 / 332
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #367 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #794 / 1293
Number of attempts: 3

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: 10
Position: #422 / 1562
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #137 / 290
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1496 / 1914
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #556 / 867
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #246 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #62 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1110 / 1185
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #467 / 910
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #528 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 354 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #66 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #381 / 711
Number of attempts: 6

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: 22
Position: #65 / 137
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 692 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: #209 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1279
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1042 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: #171 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 343 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #58 / 108
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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 / 297
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 479 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #77 / 128
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2258 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: #520 / 688
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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: #127 / 214
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 182 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #31 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: #132 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #237 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #42 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #677 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 343 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #70 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #140 / 456
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 378 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #85 / 111
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: #227 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2402 / 4224
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 247 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #881 / 1146
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #134 / 361
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 264 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 120
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #126 / 276
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #225 / 309
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2066 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: #384 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 390 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #80 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #670 / 1093
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1178 / 3991
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #52 / 138
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 450 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 245 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #26 / 79
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #160 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 193 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #45 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #111 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 369
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #317 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 502 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #138 / 202
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 459
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #512 / 778
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #361 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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: #252 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #137 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 661
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #365 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #80 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #218 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #148 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #346 / 655
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #501 / 615
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #1971 / 3902
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1063 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1