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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1459 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #99 / 298
Number of attempts: 1

Fix timezone format - 326 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #49 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #102 / 306
Number of attempts: 4

months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #122 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2095 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: #157 / 465
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1468 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: #105 / 431
Number of attempts: 5

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #338 / 576
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 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: #112 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 55
Position: #78 / 420
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #98 / 355
Number of attempts: 4

Substraction (bis) - 637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #36 / 116
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: 15
Position: #35 / 224
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #229 / 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: 37
Position: #23 / 156
Number of attempts: 6

delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #242 / 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: 44
Position: #149 / 277
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #267 / 722
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #105 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 131
Number of attempts: 7

Plotting some variables in python - 1683 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 / 352
Number of attempts: 8

CSV to MD format - 448 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 79
Position: #52 / 98
Number of attempts: 3

Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #56 / 311
Number of attempts: 3

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #140 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #154 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate Bullets - 337 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: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #47 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #111 / 393
Number of attempts: 3

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 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: #148 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #39 / 116
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #471 / 1117
Number of attempts: 3

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 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: #259 / 492
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #384 / 535
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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 / 7489
Number of attempts: 8

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #432 / 1557
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #137 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #449 / 590
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 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: #154 / 235
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #22 / 864
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #102 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1775 / 3087
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #307 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #858 / 1179
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1208 / 1895
Number of attempts: 1

Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #122 / 234
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #243 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #94 / 180
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #527 / 707
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #716 / 1643
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3198 / 4234
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #503 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 274 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #128 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 880 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 / 295
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 313 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 / 140
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #140 / 270
Number of attempts: 5

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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: #128 / 211
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #91 / 257
Number of attempts: 6

Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #140 / 153
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 865 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 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #89 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Remove quotes after first field - 408 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #46 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #124 / 267
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #121 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #45 / 453
Number of attempts: 10

Simple format (2) - 342 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 71
Number of attempts: 7

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #503 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #173 / 520
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #514 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #229 / 783
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #148 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1987 / 3846
Number of attempts: 1