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Played Challenges

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 387 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #85 / 144
Number of attempts: 4

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 526 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 120
Number of attempts: 9

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 278 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #13 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 696 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #64 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 84 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: #17 / 21
Number of attempts: 2

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 204 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 / 67
Number of attempts: 6

Markdown Blog Editing - 434 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 53
Position: #66 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Word completion - 279 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 72
Number of attempts: 7

Move to corresponding lines - 305 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #42 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to single level - 1649 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: #72 / 272
Number of attempts: 4

Rearrange array to one line - 758 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #117 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Format a long line - 119 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 33
Number of attempts: 5

months to html list items - 1110 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #50 / 301
Number of attempts: 3

Quicksort - 2061 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 / 458
Number of attempts: 7

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 413 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: #62 / 85
Number of attempts: 4

Find fix point of cos - 1444 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 / 427
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #65 / 352
Number of attempts: 11

Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #318 / 478
Number of attempts: 4

hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #342 / 717
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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 / 7474
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 - 313 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #76 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1787 / 3085
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #867 / 1177
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #817 / 1891
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #709 / 759
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3212 / 4230
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 867 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: #162 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2051 / 4202
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #292 / 520
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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 / 412
Number of attempts: 8

Shebangs for all - 2049 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: #167 / 523
Number of attempts: 12

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 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: #328 / 440
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #346 / 829
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 13266 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #2002 / 3811
Number of attempts: 4