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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2661 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #390 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 98
  • Position: #332 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 1
Changing around text with citations - 361 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #55 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 101
  • Position: #209 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 3
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #458 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 2
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 660 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 185
  • Position: #149 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #487 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #251 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2661 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #547 / 618
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 91
  • Position: #188 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1678 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #152 / 563
  • Number of attempts: 5
simple replacements - 1857 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #385 / 398
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2162 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #247 / 391
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS Final exam vimgolf - 922 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #212 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 3
Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #78 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 3
ssh config skills - 278 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 98
  • Position: #61 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 1
Format the CSS - 165 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #48 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #669 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #83 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 6
Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #212 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #199 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #126 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #495 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #72 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 9
Condensed Cases - 811 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: 18
  • Position: #212 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16104 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3982 / 4205
  • Number of attempts: 2
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