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Played Challenges

Sort and Tag - 72 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #11 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 8
Changing date formats - 144 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 70
  • Position: #26 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 2
YAML to dotenv - 203 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #15 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 107 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #39 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Fibonacci Spacer - 59 entries

Split the words, remove punctuation and add spaces before each line following the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89)

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #14 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 148 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #30 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 299 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #44 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorganize Pokémon - 336 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #31 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 5
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 109 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #16 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 2
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 97 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #36 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rearrange array to one line - 608 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #77 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quicksort - 1968 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: 6
  • Position: #35 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 3
Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 431 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #42 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove line numbers - 736 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #35 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 5
Find fix point of cos - 1403 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: #176 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #59 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 2
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 556 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #158 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 148
  • Position: #42 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 5
Paste a column after a column - 2537 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #304 / 553
  • Number of attempts: 2
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 408 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: 27
  • Position: #34 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fizzbuzz - 574 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 89
  • Position: #119 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #268 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 3
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #448 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 1
CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 114
  • Position: #82 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #67 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #65 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #178 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2387 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #429 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #147 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
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