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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 1266 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #23 / 284
Number of attempts: 9

Quicksort - 2111 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: 29
Position: #342 / 472
Number of attempts: 4

EDN reformat - 1218 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #127 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 450 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 112
Position: #44 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Populate 3D bone names list - 656 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #89 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 784 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #110 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Find fix point of cos - 1485 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: #175 / 434
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 582 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #154 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2668 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #382 / 578
Number of attempts: 3

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 773 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: 62
Position: #110 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1656 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #168 / 356
Number of attempts: 6

Fizzbuzz - 614 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 44
Best player score: 76
Position: #87 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Changing around text with citations - 362 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 43
Position: #70 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1484 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #263 / 483
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1884 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #292 / 578
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1295 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 47
Position: #167 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #189 / 567
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #578 / 726
Number of attempts: 3

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 908 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #50 / 276
Number of attempts: 5

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 306 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 87
Position: #46 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Fill in the chess board - 980 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #126 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

Transpose a python matrix - 905 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 65
Position: #103 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1877 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #343 / 402
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1959 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #270 / 525
Number of attempts: 5

Python dataclasses - 1253 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #213 / 313
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #165 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 245 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #39 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #251 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #123 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33981 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: 28
Position: #4564 / 7507
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 864 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #339 / 449
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1502 / 4252
Number of attempts: 6

Line under headers - 2095 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 39
Position: #445 / 515
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2407 / 4221
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 870 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #61 / 465
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #294 / 541
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #308 / 611
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #752 / 3892
Number of attempts: 4