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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 826 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #9 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

Easier Align - 358 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 62
Position: #15 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #91 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 41
Position: #59 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #317 / 514
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1231 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #61 / 260
Number of attempts: 16

Visual block training - 1047 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #10 / 195
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #221 / 505
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 404 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #32 / 93
Number of attempts: 6

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #170 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #70 / 316
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 22
Position: #2394 / 7384
Number of attempts: 2

Wget failed to download redirections - 185 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 59
Position: #5 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #303 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

Create Leading Zeros - 239 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #9 / 81
Number of attempts: 6

Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #109 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

JSON string rotation - 56 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 20
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #619 / 2114
Number of attempts: 8

Vim's not included features - 220 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 64
Number of attempts: 11

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #302 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 415 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #55 / 117
Number of attempts: 2

Sudoku table - 73 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #4 / 33
Number of attempts: 8

Separating firstname & lastname - 121 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Restore order to the alphabet - 197 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #13 / 71
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 107 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #27 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Entries sort - 82 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #22 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #528 / 1188
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 118 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #54 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 315 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #133 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Interleave lines - 159 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 59
Number of attempts: 10

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 24
Number of attempts: 9

Fix the XML - 1000 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #64 / 287
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 396 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Remove hard line breaks - 68 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #12 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #18 / 25
Number of attempts: 6

Sorting database text output - 220 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 82
Number of attempts: 6

Test everything! - 163 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #10 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 794 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #100 / 244
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty format for variable declarations - 156 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1240 / 4166
Number of attempts: 4

learn vim in short time - 233 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #129 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #734 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #133 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 255 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 66
Number of attempts: 10

Five Pillars - 63 entries

Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #6 / 24
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 349 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #7 / 127
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2506 / 3677
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3128 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #365 / 1073
Number of attempts: 1

Number an outline - 252 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Position: #22 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 361 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #37 / 134
Number of attempts: 11

Tiny column alignment - 47 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #6 / 22
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 147
Number of attempts: 1