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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1151 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #240 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2113 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: #249 / 472
Number of attempts: 3

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: 38
Position: #143 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 786 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: #203 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #282 / 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: #205 / 328
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #81 / 578
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #291 / 484
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #334 / 580
Number of attempts: 6

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1039 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #177 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #323 / 726
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 526
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 399 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #74 / 106
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #175 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 256 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #91 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #297 / 394
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #211 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 21
Position: #896 / 1124
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2487 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: #450 / 496
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #90 / 332
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 753 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 / 229
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #399 / 537
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 660 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 37
Position: #203 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 184 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #61 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #444 / 1562
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1102 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #224 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #60 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #909 / 1674
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1047 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: #303 / 397
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #340 / 515
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 173 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 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #179 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 467 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 42
Position: #99 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #177 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #748 / 789
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #596 / 684
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 426
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #160 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 685 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #134 / 270
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #667 / 1764
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: #417 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1088 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 / 679
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 128
Position: #69 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 37
Position: #99 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 501 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 / 181
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #377 / 465
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 416
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #182 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 278 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 126
Position: #59 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1416 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #514 / 542
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #142 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #250 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #339 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 652 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 55
Position: #208 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 678 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: #164 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 47
Position: #205 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 85
Position: #178 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 463 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #137 / 261
Number of attempts: 4

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #606 / 655
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #532 / 615
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: #438 / 457
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 1201 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: #262 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #720 / 862
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 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 / 3902
Number of attempts: 10