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Played Challenges

New teacher - 619 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #57 / 135
Number of attempts: 7

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 489 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #26 / 105
Number of attempts: 14

months to html list items - 826 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #59 / 222
Number of attempts: 3

Quicksort - 1757 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: 7
Position: #139 / 385
Number of attempts: 13

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: #208 / 365
Number of attempts: 3

Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #120 / 523
Number of attempts: 9

Reformat symbols in list - 1507 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #100 / 334
Number of attempts: 10

Many duplicates - 1350 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #200 / 440
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #190 / 514
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 985 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 207
Number of attempts: 14

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #535 / 699
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #111 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

simple replacements - 1710 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #154 / 378
Number of attempts: 6

Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 505
Number of attempts: 8

Python dataclasses - 1121 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #110 / 281
Number of attempts: 9

Count to 100 in word form - 121 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: 91
Position: #24 / 28
Number of attempts: 14

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #122 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #159 / 316
Number of attempts: 10

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: 22
Position: #85 / 234
Number of attempts: 10

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #471 / 1086
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #197 / 465
Number of attempts: 16

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: 9
Position: #200 / 302
Number of attempts: 6

Multiline to Single Line - 680 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 7
Position: #280 / 298
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 286 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 39
Position: #21 / 63
Number of attempts: 17

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #376 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #173 / 257
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #521 / 1259
Number of attempts: 6

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1203 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #126 / 247
Number of attempts: 8

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #649 / 839
Number of attempts: 3

From argument to object - 1481 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #269 / 453
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #389 / 750
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 19
Position: #302 / 316
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3183 / 4174
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #102 / 211
Number of attempts: 10

Triangle of arrows - 181 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #28 / 43
Number of attempts: 5

Manual SQL - 136 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 54
Position: #15 / 49
Number of attempts: 9

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: 16
Position: #157 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 628 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #193 / 252
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 794 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: 14
Position: #149 / 244
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2031 / 4166
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1860 / 3950
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #40 / 195
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #253 / 748
Number of attempts: 8

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #326 / 653
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1002 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #82 / 180
Number of attempts: 7

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: 14
Position: #244 / 402
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1917 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #158 / 502
Number of attempts: 7

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #57 / 404
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: #76 / 133
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 686 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 47
Position: #27 / 184
Number of attempts: 13

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: #1927 / 3626
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #390 / 1652
Number of attempts: 7