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Played Challenges

Find fix point of cos - 648 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: #52 / 181
Number of attempts: 5

Paste a column after a column - 1676 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #210 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 486 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: 63
Position: #78 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1275 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 55
Position: #59 / 347
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat symbols in list - 1210 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #77 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Substraction (bis) - 452 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #26 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 977 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #35 / 179
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1048 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #211 / 341
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 507 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: #23 / 122
Number of attempts: 6

delete swap - 1268 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #242 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1008 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 44
Position: #121 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2125 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #267 / 601
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 758 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #94 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 468 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 108
Number of attempts: 7

Plotting some variables in python - 1431 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: #49 / 305
Number of attempts: 8

CSV to MD format - 341 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 79
Position: #41 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

Python dataclasses - 828 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #56 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 290 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #140 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1208 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #131 / 283
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate Bullets - 268 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: 24
Position: #42 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 1925 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #105 / 354
Number of attempts: 3

HS Final exam vimgolf - 836 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #130 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 320 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #34 / 100
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4290 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #452 / 1052
Number of attempts: 3

Satisfy the go linter - 2108 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: 24
Position: #226 / 427
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1091 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #383 / 503
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2383 / 7330
Number of attempts: 8

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6141 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #432 / 1500
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1033 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #127 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #429 / 566
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 873 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #148 / 221
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #22 / 834
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 850 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #98 / 250
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10744 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1758 / 3030
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #295 / 506
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #838 / 1134
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7782 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1180 / 1853
Number of attempts: 1

Cool or not? - 773 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #118 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1460 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #235 / 374
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 729 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 172
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2869 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #521 / 695
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #716 / 1578
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3179 / 4152
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1795 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #492 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 254 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #126 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 832 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #161 / 283
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 298 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 134
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1350 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 258
Number of attempts: 5

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 627 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: 15
Position: #121 / 200
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 970 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #87 / 240
Number of attempts: 6

Join 'em - 243 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 144
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 729 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #252 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 276 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #89 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

Remove quotes after first field - 340 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1128 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #120 / 257
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 501 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #112 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2345 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #45 / 439
Number of attempts: 10

Simple format (2) - 328 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 68
Number of attempts: 7

attr_aligner - 3408 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #492 / 689
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1588 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #171 / 509
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3105 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #506 / 1066
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #223 / 759
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #139 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11966 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1911 / 3503
Number of attempts: 1