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CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 18 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xc4jQO7ck&t=1429s

Best score: 49
Best player score: 51
Position: #3 / 6
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 54 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #4 / 21
Number of attempts: 2

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 38 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 12
Number of attempts: 1

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 54 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

Best score: 57
Best player score: 57
Position: #1 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 244 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #3 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Word completion - 155 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

Fix timezone format - 208 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: 15
Position: #1 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 141 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: 22
Position: #1 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Remove adjacent duplicates - 421 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Move to corresponding lines - 214 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 48
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1170 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to one line - 572 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #5 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Copy punctuation - 460 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Change LaTex itemizations formats - 103 entries

Inspired by the way my professor formats their LaTeX assignments.

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #1 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Column wise pasting - 163 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting text - 232 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #1 / 76
Number of attempts: 7

Resolve the spreadsheet - 22 entries

Replace the formulas in column C with the resulting values. Divisions by zero result in NaN. Operations with NaN also result in NaN.

Best score: 119
Best player score: 120
Position: #2 / 6
Number of attempts: 2

Case matching substitution - 55 entries

Swap every "lorem" for "ipsum", keeping the letter cases the same.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #5 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Define Gray code states - 30 entries

List the states using Gray code and assign Gray code values to each state.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #1 / 10
Number of attempts: 5

Hex to binary - 78 entries

Convert hexadecimal numbers into binary format.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 31
Position: #2 / 17
Number of attempts: 8

Count words - 49 entries

Merge duplicates and count each word.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #2 / 15
Number of attempts: 4

String decompression - 27 entries

3a4b2c => aaabbbbcc. Start a new line when you exceed 79 columns.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #6 / 10
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse even lines - 32 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 11
Number of attempts: 5

Format a long line - 71 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Evil Numbers - 72 entries

Print the first 100 evil numbers https://oeis.org/A001969. This is an advert for code.golf https://code.golf/evil-numbers#viml

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #6 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror image - 69 entries

Add the second eye

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #3 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Find anomalies - 125 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinate extraction - 51 entries

Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #2 / 15
Number of attempts: 5

Morse - 132 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #1 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

New teacher - 851 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Truth Table to ModelSim - 58 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

Best score: 64
Best player score: 64
Position: #1 / 17
Number of attempts: 2

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 563 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

months to html list items - 971 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

Instance creation in Verilog - 41 entries

Creating an instance of a module is a very frequent task in Verilog. Let's see how efficiently can it be done

Best score: 107
Best player score: 107
Position: #2 / 9
Number of attempts: 10

Quicksort - 1892 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #3 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

EDN reformat - 1140 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 381 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #1 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 412 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #1 / 85
Number of attempts: 5

Populate 3D bone names list - 610 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #2 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 703 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #4 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1383 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: 14
Position: #10 / 405
Number of attempts: 1

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 445 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 546 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 393 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 51
Position: #1 / 95
Number of attempts: 7

Paste a column after a column - 2518 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 549
Number of attempts: 1

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 401 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #19 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 721 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 50
Position: #1 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1578 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #1 / 416
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat symbols in list - 1607 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 345
Number of attempts: 1

Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 47
Position: #7 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Substraction (bis) - 584 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #3 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #9 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1315 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #54 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #27 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #12 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1773 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #93 / 549
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #31 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #31 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2494 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #205 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 956 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #21 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #98 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 897 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #72 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #126 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

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