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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 625 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #94 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Create json from a .env file - 1329 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 68
Position: #196 / 309
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to single level - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #47 / 272
Number of attempts: 13

Rearrange array to one line - 758 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #135 / 182
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror image - 123 entries

Add the second eye

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #29 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Find anomalies - 161 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #2 / 43
Number of attempts: 4

Coordinate extraction - 55 entries

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

Best score: 43
Best player score: 61
Position: #12 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

New teacher - 1423 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #153 / 300
Number of attempts: 5

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 641 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #60 / 124
Number of attempts: 5

months to html list items - 1110 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #30 / 301
Number of attempts: 9

Quicksort - 2061 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: #9 / 458
Number of attempts: 4

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 413 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: 155
Position: #64 / 85
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 638 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #83 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1444 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: #90 / 427
Number of attempts: 5

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 474 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 63
Position: #74 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 572 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #23 / 321
Number of attempts: 3

Paste a column after a column - 2632 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #68 / 570
Number of attempts: 11

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 417 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: 28
Position: #64 / 120
Number of attempts: 5

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 755 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: 67
Position: #137 / 182
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 82
Position: #279 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 41
Position: #280 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #230 / 478
Number of attempts: 7

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: 78
Position: #133 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1818 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #355 / 567
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 62
Position: #554 / 616
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1096 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 80
Position: #184 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #46 / 561
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #273 / 717
Number of attempts: 7

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 60
Position: #153 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #481 / 1116
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #442 / 1555
Number of attempts: 9

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1966 / 3085
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #714 / 1638
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 789 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #234 / 269
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #2822 / 3811
Number of attempts: 1