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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #228 / 295
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2038 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: #244 / 452
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #139 / 164
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 747 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: 84
Position: #196 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1432 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: #274 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 570 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 319
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2610 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 / 566
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #290 / 476
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1809 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #334 / 564
Number of attempts: 6

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #173 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #323 / 713
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1923 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 516
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 363 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #70 / 102
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #175 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #88 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2128 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #293 / 388
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 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: #206 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 21
Position: #888 / 1114
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2450 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: #443 / 485
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #90 / 319
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 313
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 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 / 225
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #399 / 533
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 37
Position: #200 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #58 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #444 / 1551
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #221 / 285
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 241 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #58 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #889 / 1631
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: #294 / 383
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #336 / 510
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 162 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 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #175 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 434 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 42
Position: #96 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #175 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #738 / 779
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #584 / 669
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 420
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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 / 275
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #134 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #667 / 1750
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: #408 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1064 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 / 670
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 128
Position: #68 / 146
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 - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #375 / 461
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 413
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 548 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #177 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 126
Position: #58 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #507 / 534
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #139 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #246 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #331 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 55
Position: #202 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: #155 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 757 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 47
Position: #188 / 219
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 745 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 85
Position: #170 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 415 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #130 / 239
Number of attempts: 4

Change the content of a string - 1659 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #569 / 612
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1507 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #508 / 584
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 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: #417 / 435
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 1074 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: #242 / 332
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #683 / 816
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 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 / 3776
Number of attempts: 10