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Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 486 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #84 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 347 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 62
Position: #12 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2262 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #45 / 491
Number of attempts: 1

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 376 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: #60 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

HS exam question - 1510 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #11 / 397
Number of attempts: 16

Reformat symbols in list - 1470 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 323
Number of attempts: 5

Fizzbuzz - 510 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 47
Position: #11 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 578 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 107
Number of attempts: 13

Changing around text with citations - 322 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #15 / 88
Number of attempts: 7

Poorly indented Python comments - 1173 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1253 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #15 / 412
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 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: #18 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1527 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #147 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1179 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: #39 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #37 / 542
Number of attempts: 3

Visual block training - 1005 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #5 / 185
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1578 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #174 / 525
Number of attempts: 4

Java to JavaScript - 257 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #9 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #38 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 841 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #44 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 261 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #18 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 40 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

Best score: 47
Best player score: 48
Position: #5 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 905 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: #26 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Learn to ask for :help - 541 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #20 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Plotting some variables in python - 1567 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #45 / 334
Number of attempts: 1

Transpose a python matrix - 845 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #16 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

Create a diamond comment - 314 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #10 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Lowercase first characters - 467 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #28 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 90 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 75
Position: #3 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Migrated to Postgres! - 312 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #11 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

Increment number for every 10 lines - 219 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #5 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1662 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #66 / 371
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #178 / 498
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 388 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #11 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1105 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #57 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Count to 100 in word form - 107 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 55
Position: #4 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 320 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 306 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #160 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1334 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #55 / 308
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 292 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 203 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #11 / 84
Number of attempts: 7

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #171 / 370
Number of attempts: 3

Extend shell script - 103 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #6 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

ssh config skills - 249 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #12 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 281 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

C to python code snippet - 81 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 49
Position: #7 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 297 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #19 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Format the CSS - 115 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: 42
Position: #9 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #197 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #290 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #23 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 77 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #3 / 29
Number of attempts: 12

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #129 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #258 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #92 / 172
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #127 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #151 / 736
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1932 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #311 / 1616
Number of attempts: 2

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Working through Vimgolf example till the top or second top score, to be able to see all of the solutions, and practice them.