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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 929 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #191 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 1844 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: 24
Position: #227 / 404
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 580 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #124 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 680 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 84
Position: #180 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1306 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: 16
Position: #249 / 383
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 532 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 294
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2481 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 537
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1422 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #288 / 460
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1758 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #334 / 544
Number of attempts: 6

Wikitext headings to markdown - 986 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #172 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2484 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #323 / 703
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1879 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 507
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #69 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 324 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #175 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 221 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #84 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2064 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #285 / 375
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 894 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 42
Position: #202 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4450 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 21
Position: #864 / 1089
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: 38
Position: #429 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 950 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #90 / 303
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 695 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #145 / 220
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #398 / 522
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 37
Position: #198 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 171 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #58 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #444 / 1532
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1072 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #216 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #57 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #876 / 1615
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 45
Position: #290 / 379
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #331 / 499
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 253
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 93
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #174 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 428 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 42
Position: #95 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #174 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #735 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #575 / 657
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 413
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 499 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #145 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #134 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #667 / 1743
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: 31
Position: #401 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1037 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #566 / 657
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 128
Position: #67 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 409 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 37
Position: #95 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 470 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #16 / 175
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #373 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 405
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 495 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #171 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 126
Position: #56 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #497 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 398 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #133 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #241 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #326 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 55
Position: #197 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 582 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 37
Position: #152 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 691 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 47
Position: #178 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 712 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 85
Position: #164 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 383 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #123 / 224
Number of attempts: 4

Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #537 / 577
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #479 / 551
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 61
Position: #390 / 403
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 957 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 50
Position: #230 / 306
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #651 / 770
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #704 / 3653
Number of attempts: 10