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Played Challenges

New teacher - 619 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #38 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 826 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1204 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: #220 / 365
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1275 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #120 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1350 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #53 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 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: #95 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 514
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #430 / 569
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1047 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #76 / 195
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #513 / 551
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #386 / 699
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #141 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #290 / 505
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 210 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 87
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 892 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: #127 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 317 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #71 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #648 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2360 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: #344 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #242 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #366 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #782 / 1259
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1530
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1066 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #132 / 278
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1483 / 1887
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #538 / 843
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #238 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #57 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1078 / 1151
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #436 / 839
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #522 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 332 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #62 / 117
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #376 / 698
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 532 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 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 641 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: #205 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 958 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: #162 / 267
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 - 841 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 / 288
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 431 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #75 / 124
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #138 / 258
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2174 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: #505 / 664
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 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: #123 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 121 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #25 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: #128 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 628 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #227 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 363 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #40 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #668 / 1188
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 344
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 302 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #67 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #135 / 442
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 333 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #80 / 106
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: #222 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2371 / 4166
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 233 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #871 / 1132
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #130 / 352
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 244 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #124 / 270
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #217 / 298
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #377 / 581
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #77 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #663 / 1073
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1163 / 3950
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 361 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 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 398 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 190 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 74
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #154 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 184 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #44 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 506 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #108 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 359
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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: #310 / 443
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 452 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #134 / 195
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 442
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #496 / 748
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #350 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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: #243 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #134 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 646
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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 / 402
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #361 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 366 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 133
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #209 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #126 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #301 / 567
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #443 / 542
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1907 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 42
Position: #979 / 1652
Number of attempts: 1