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Convert list of enums to list of localization terms - 213 entries

While making my game Piloteer, I had a large list of TaskTypes and needed to convert them to an equivalent list of localization terms, to be used when translating the game's text into different languages.

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 179
  • Position: #63 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 3
From brakets to parens - 1290 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: 72
  • Position: #273 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create json from a .env file - 1682 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #295 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reordering properties - 1371 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: 121
  • Position: #256 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and Tag - 731 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: 79
  • Position: #69 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 5
Changing date formats - 749 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 189
  • Position: #200 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
YAML to dotenv - 1627 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #191 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 487 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #125 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 8
Generate an entry for each month - 387 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: 83
  • Position: #82 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Fibonacci Spacer - 172 entries

Split the words, remove punctuation and add spaces before each line following the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #34 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reorganize Pokémon - 875 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #171 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 7
Convert plain text into a markdown table - 104 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 115
  • Position: #21 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 4
extract struct tag in go - 164 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #41 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 2
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 297 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #97 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 245 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: 77
  • Position: #74 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 9
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 363 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #68 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to single level - 1829 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #166 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rearrange array to one line - 889 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #174 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy punctuation - 739 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #123 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 656 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #147 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 2
Find fix point of cos - 1485 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: 21
  • Position: #341 / 434
  • Number of attempts: 3
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 503 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #94 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1488 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #466 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #535 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 3
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #206 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 467 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #112 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 2
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