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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1135 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #236 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2098 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: #248 / 467
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 652 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #142 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 779 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: 84
Position: #201 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1483 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: #281 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 580 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 326
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #81 / 576
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1481 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #291 / 481
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1878 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #334 / 575
Number of attempts: 6

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #176 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2531 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #323 / 725
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 523
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 394 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #73 / 105
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 345 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #175 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #89 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #296 / 393
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #210 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4593 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 21
Position: #893 / 1120
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: #449 / 494
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #90 / 329
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 753 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 321
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #399 / 535
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 37
Position: #201 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 178 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #60 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #444 / 1559
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #222 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 253 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #59 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #901 / 1662
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 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: #297 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #339 / 514
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 675 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 163 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 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 649 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #178 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 445 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 42
Position: #97 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #176 / 232
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #744 / 785
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #591 / 678
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 423
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 502 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #158 / 200
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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 / 279
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #134 / 266
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #667 / 1758
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1287 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: #413 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1076 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 / 676
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 314 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 128
Position: #68 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 37
Position: #98 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 486 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 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #376 / 463
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 557 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #180 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 254 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 126
Position: #58 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #511 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #141 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 514 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #247 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #335 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 55
Position: #205 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 631 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: #160 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 809 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 47
Position: #201 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 85
Position: #176 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 453 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 257
Number of attempts: 4

Change the content of a string - 1764 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #598 / 647
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1568 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #526 / 607
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1710 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 61
Position: #432 / 451
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 1151 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: #256 / 355
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #710 / 850
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 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 / 3875
Number of attempts: 10