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Define Gray code states - 30 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 99
Position: #7 / 10
Number of attempts: 2

Morse - 132 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 71
Position: #19 / 31
Number of attempts: 7

New teacher - 851 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #130 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 971 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #109 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

EDN reformat - 1140 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #72 / 161
Number of attempts: 8

Populate 3D bone names list - 610 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #49 / 157
Number of attempts: 6

Remove line numbers - 703 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: #60 / 190
Number of attempts: 4

Find fix point of cos - 1382 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: #224 / 404
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2518 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #97 / 549
Number of attempts: 7

HS exam question - 1577 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 63
Position: #141 / 415
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat symbols in list - 1607 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #111 / 345
Number of attempts: 4

Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 84
Position: #102 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #391 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1773 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #332 / 549
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 39
Position: #105 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 36
Position: #357 / 589
Number of attempts: 10

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #79 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 52
Position: #548 / 555
Number of attempts: 3

Plotting some variables in python - 1660 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: 71
Position: #312 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #326 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1882 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #226 / 509
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 86
Position: #63 / 94
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 48
Position: #44 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 1127 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #183 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #173 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1388 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #197 / 319
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #527 / 1267
Number of attempts: 5

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Position: #130 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #27 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 40 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #9 / 16
Number of attempts: 8

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: #111 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1120 / 2125
Number of attempts: 2

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #86 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #14 / 65
Number of attempts: 9

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #72 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #303 / 423
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 273 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #69 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #45 / 118
Number of attempts: 4

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #56 / 118
Number of attempts: 7

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 72
Position: #30 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #52 / 128
Number of attempts: 10

Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 55
Position: #17 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #41 / 72
Number of attempts: 5

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #50 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

No naked if allowed! - 39 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

Best score: 46
Best player score: 58
Position: #10 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #529 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #199 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #55 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #136 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

Line 'em up! - 421 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: 28
Position: #91 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #71 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 52
Position: #18 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #20 / 228
Number of attempts: 3