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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 611 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #30 / 139
Number of attempts: 5

Create json from a .env file - 1303 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #30 / 303
Number of attempts: 13

Reordering properties - 1042 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #12 / 240
Number of attempts: 20

Sort and Tag - 613 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 110
Position: #84 / 125
Number of attempts: 3

Changing date formats - 615 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #11 / 170
Number of attempts: 5

YAML to dotenv - 1226 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 262
Number of attempts: 10

Generate an entry for each month - 351 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

Best score: 27
Best player score: 32
Position: #17 / 84
Number of attempts: 9

Fix the git merge conflicts - 286 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

Best score: 36
Best player score: 38
Position: #9 / 78
Number of attempts: 10

Nested JSON Flattener - 101 entries

Transform a deeply nested JSON structure into a flattened key-value format where each path is represented by dot notation

Best score: 44
Best player score: 56
Position: #11 / 27
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the Scala Method - 286 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

Best score: 2
Best player score: 22
Position: #42 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

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: #38 / 120
Number of attempts: 6

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 276 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #62 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 691 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #34 / 190
Number of attempts: 4

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 248 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #37 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Convert plain text into a markdown table - 70 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #3 / 25
Number of attempts: 7

Change readonly files - 90 entries

Try to write a file that was marked as read-only.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #9 / 24
Number of attempts: 9

extract struct tag in go - 142 entries

Can you extract all struct tags in the fewest keystrokes possible?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 35
Position: #12 / 36
Number of attempts: 6

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: 49
Position: #6 / 21
Number of attempts: 5

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 236 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #22 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 108 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

Word completion - 279 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 72
Number of attempts: 11

Remove adjacent duplicates - 646 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #18 / 162
Number of attempts: 9

Rearrange array to single level - 1631 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 271
Number of attempts: 11

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: 13
Position: #27 / 182
Number of attempts: 8

Copy punctuation - 655 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #18 / 158
Number of attempts: 10

Deleting text - 309 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #6 / 99
Number of attempts: 11

Define Gray code states - 53 entries

List the states using Gray code and assign Gray code values to each state.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 83
Position: #10 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

String decompression - 32 entries

3a4b2c => aaabbbbcc. Start a new line when you exceed 79 columns.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #4 / 12
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse even lines - 33 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 323
Position: #12 / 12
Number of attempts: 1

Format a long line - 105 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Mirror image - 104 entries

Add the second eye

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #25 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

Find anomalies - 161 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 42
Position: #24 / 43
Number of attempts: 8

Morse - 155 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #10 / 35
Number of attempts: 10

New teacher - 1419 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #29 / 299
Number of attempts: 7

Truth Table to ModelSim - 58 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

Best score: 64
Best player score: 65
Position: #5 / 17
Number of attempts: 4

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 641 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 124
Number of attempts: 10

months to html list items - 1108 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 300
Number of attempts: 6

EDN reformat - 1193 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #67 / 169
Number of attempts: 13

Populate 3D bone names list - 638 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #31 / 166
Number of attempts: 7

Remove line numbers - 752 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: 12
Position: #57 / 201
Number of attempts: 7

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: 15
Position: #221 / 427
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 572 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #197 / 321
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 421 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 94
Position: #29 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

Paste a column after a column - 2632 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #95 / 570
Number of attempts: 7

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 417 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #41 / 120
Number of attempts: 6

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 755 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 50
Position: #5 / 182
Number of attempts: 14

HS exam question - 1599 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #20 / 419
Number of attempts: 15

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: #60 / 352
Number of attempts: 8

Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #22 / 94
Number of attempts: 11

Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #283 / 478
Number of attempts: 5

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #28 / 155
Number of attempts: 11

delete swap - 1818 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #320 / 567
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1281 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: #63 / 275
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #53 / 616
Number of attempts: 7

Visual block training - 1096 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #11 / 207
Number of attempts: 16

Innocent Monster - 217 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

Best score: 60
Best player score: 72
Position: #19 / 49
Number of attempts: 9

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #201 / 561
Number of attempts: 4

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1014 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #49 / 211
Number of attempts: 10

hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #315 / 717
Number of attempts: 6

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 900 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #115 / 273
Number of attempts: 5

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #21 / 66
Number of attempts: 11

Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 54 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

Best score: 46
Best player score: 47
Position: #4 / 18
Number of attempts: 5

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #51 / 185
Number of attempts: 16

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 130
Number of attempts: 6

Plotting some variables in python - 1673 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #56 / 350
Number of attempts: 6

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #42 / 138
Number of attempts: 14

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #13 / 75
Number of attempts: 8

Lowercase first characters - 490 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #33 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 107 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 75
Position: #5 / 39
Number of attempts: 5

Migrated to Postgres! - 338 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #71 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #6 / 65
Number of attempts: 9

simple replacements - 1833 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #94 / 396
Number of attempts: 12

Inverting Lines - 1932 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #230 / 518
Number of attempts: 8

CSV to MD format - 429 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #14 / 96
Number of attempts: 13

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 323 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #22 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Python dataclasses - 1229 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #79 / 308
Number of attempts: 7

Count to 100 in word form - 148 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 53
Position: #4 / 31
Number of attempts: 13

RUST match with enum for Coin - 186 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 96
Position: #19 / 54
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #176 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1420 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #72 / 328
Number of attempts: 7

Staircase - 152 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 35
Number of attempts: 8

vimtutor, but you can cheat - 24 entries

It's time to revisit vimtutor, but as an experienced Vim user! Your goal is to change the file to appear as if you had gone through the tutorial, but you do NOT need to actually complete the tutorial as written or do anything that doesn't result in changes to the file. You may use whatever you have in your Vim toolbelt that's allowed under VimGolf rules. The whole tutorial is too large to submit, so only the relevant lesson headers and associated practice lines are presented in this challenge. You will have to reference the tutor for the original instructions if you need them: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/4466ad6baa22485abb1147aca3340cced4778a66/runtime/tutor/tutor

Best score: 142
Best player score: 156
Position: #5 / 11
Number of attempts: 4

Enumerate Bullets - 330 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #26 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #13 / 92
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2146 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #57 / 390
Number of attempts: 8

HS Final exam vimgolf - 913 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #101 / 241
Number of attempts: 7

Extend shell script - 138 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #8 / 48
Number of attempts: 6

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 115
Number of attempts: 7

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 319 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #22 / 58
Number of attempts: 9

Mr. Hacker - 90 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #16 / 36
Number of attempts: 4

Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #88 / 157
Number of attempts: 3

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 82
Number of attempts: 9

Format the CSS - 158 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #18 / 49
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #204 / 1116
Number of attempts: 5

Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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: 20
Position: #165 / 491
Number of attempts: 6

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1030 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #91 / 325
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 747 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #231 / 318
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 304 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 37
Position: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 7

xrandr outputs and dashes - 725 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: #147 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 174
Number of attempts: 9

Capitalize the Names - 412 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 98
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #401 / 534
Number of attempts: 2

C# data class to F# record - 79 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

Best score: 63
Best player score: 63
Position: #6 / 18
Number of attempts: 8

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #45 / 233
Number of attempts: 6

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #58 / 267
Number of attempts: 8

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: 15
Position: #84 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 174 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #23 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #446 / 1555
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 57 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #4 / 18
Number of attempts: 8

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 42
Number of attempts: 8

Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #41 / 286
Number of attempts: 3

add line and index - 100 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #3 / 29
Number of attempts: 11

Aliases for cd - 881 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #20 / 156
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules (ver.2) - 241 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 61
Number of attempts: 10

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 202 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #66 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #103 / 233
Number of attempts: 6

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 339 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #26 / 73
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1253 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #64 / 261
Number of attempts: 7

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #765 / 3085
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #37 / 536
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #300 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 40 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #33 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 227 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #9 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part4 - 23 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #1 / 12
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part2 - 35 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 40
Best player score: 41
Position: #8 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #2 / 11
Number of attempts: 8

citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 25 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 57
Best player score: 57
Position: #1 / 8
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 30 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #5 / 12
Number of attempts: 4

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 143 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #20 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #18 / 29
Number of attempts: 6

Hash staircase - 56 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 25
Number of attempts: 4

html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #21 / 128
Number of attempts: 10

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #103 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #36 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 19
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #724 / 1637
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 269
Number of attempts: 4

Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 44
Number of attempts: 7

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 101 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #53 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 149 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #50 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 50
Position: #7 / 24
Number of attempts: 8

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 510
Number of attempts: 6

Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 66 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #47 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 252 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #26 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 244 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #58 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #95 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #7 / 20
Number of attempts: 5

Remove quotes after first field - 386 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 93
Number of attempts: 8

Reorder the groups - 1185 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #95 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #13 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

If-then-else regexp - 53 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #7 / 14
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #5 / 11
Number of attempts: 6

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #5 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #11 / 57
Number of attempts: 9

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 54 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #39 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

calculations - 313 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #20 / 69
Number of attempts: 18

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: 120
Position: #42 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 556 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #14 / 191
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse characters in a line - 789 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #150 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 782 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Remember FizzBuzz? - 758 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 48
Position: #32 / 200
Number of attempts: 10

Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #222 / 628
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #276 / 594
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #147 / 440
Number of attempts: 5

Braces or Brackets? - 1096 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #36 / 339
Number of attempts: 8

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 829
Number of attempts: 14

Flodder-challenge - 1401 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #32 / 358
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #708 / 3810
Number of attempts: 5

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A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 35
Position: #408 / 1825
Number of attempts: 8

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