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Played Challenges

New teacher - 836 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #23 / 174
Number of attempts: 10

Quicksort - 1875 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: 24
Position: #233 / 411
Number of attempts: 5

EDN reformat - 1120 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #91 / 157
Number of attempts: 8

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 409 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #31 / 84
Number of attempts: 8

Populate 3D bone names list - 589 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 34
Position: #111 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 538 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #206 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2504 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #116 / 547
Number of attempts: 9

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #291 / 467
Number of attempts: 4

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 38
Position: #46 / 153
Number of attempts: 11

delete swap - 1768 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #340 / 548
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 38
Position: #113 / 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: 12
Position: #243 / 555
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #147 / 347
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1881 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #305 / 508
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 897 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #114 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4460 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #202 / 1092
Number of attempts: 6

Multiline to Single Line - 699 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #252 / 301
Number of attempts: 3

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 43
Position: #31 / 65
Number of attempts: 6

xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 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: #146 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33571 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: 25
Position: #3412 / 7405
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #106 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

Get mail address from outlook format - 647 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #127 / 203
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6297 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1087 / 1534
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18709 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3125 / 3856
Number of attempts: 1

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: 33
Position: #39 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4796 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1494 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2865 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #654 / 846
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10845 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1772 / 3060
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3574 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #855 / 1158
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #346 / 855
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #299 / 405
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1472 / 1874
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1503 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #348 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4964 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #722 / 1617
Number of attempts: 3

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #139 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1118 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 18
Position: #301 / 321
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: #87 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #340 / 444
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10656 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2509 / 3679
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #124 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 80
Position: #24 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #305 / 751
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #355 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #91 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1043 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #571 / 659
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 691 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #33 / 205
Number of attempts: 7

Change the content of a string - 1552 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #487 / 580
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1421 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #377 / 552
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1477 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #342 / 405
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12680 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1982 / 3665
Number of attempts: 2