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Played Challenges

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 452 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #93 / 164
Number of attempts: 4

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 630 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 144
Number of attempts: 9

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 315 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #13 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 837 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #75 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 105 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xc4jQO7ck&t=1429s

Best score: 49
Best player score: 74
Position: #20 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 236 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

Best score: 57
Best player score: 63
Position: #18 / 78
Number of attempts: 6

Markdown Blog Editing - 471 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 53
Position: #71 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Word completion - 296 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 78
Number of attempts: 7

Move to corresponding lines - 322 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #44 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to single level - 1802 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #76 / 303
Number of attempts: 4

Rearrange array to one line - 855 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #130 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Format a long line - 128 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 36
Number of attempts: 5

months to html list items - 1135 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #51 / 307
Number of attempts: 3

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: 6
Position: #124 / 467
Number of attempts: 7

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 449 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 153
Position: #64 / 87
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #74 / 433
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #65 / 355
Number of attempts: 11

Many duplicates - 1481 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #319 / 481
Number of attempts: 4

hello-world-vimgolf - 2531 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #342 / 725
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: #2405 / 7500
Number of attempts: 8

Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 153
Position: #89 / 107
Number of attempts: 7

Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #77 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1791 / 3091
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #870 / 1181
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #819 / 1897
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #716 / 766
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3216 / 4240
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #163 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2060 / 4216
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #294 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #114 / 415
Number of attempts: 8

Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #170 / 529
Number of attempts: 12

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: 24
Position: #333 / 451
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #358 / 850
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #2019 / 3874
Number of attempts: 4