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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Create json from a .env file - 1585 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #282 / 376
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 312 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #98 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 829 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #135 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 3
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 270 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #86 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 1
extract struct tag in go - 153 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #19 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 99 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: #18 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 2
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 270 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #34 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 134 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #25 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 4
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 228 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: 71
  • Position: #54 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 1
Word completion - 284 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 138
  • Position: #65 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 336 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: 23
  • Position: #25 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 4
Move to corresponding lines - 320 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #62 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to single level - 1791 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #58 / 299
  • Number of attempts: 9
Rearrange array to one line - 840 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #72 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy punctuation - 715 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #121 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
Column wise pasting - 256 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #13 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 5
Deleting text - 337 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #13 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1480 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #183 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1135 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #103 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 23
  • Position: #2841 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #647 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #451 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1568 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1790 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1210 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3217 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #543 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1132 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #127 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #148 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2061 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1613 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1880 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1016 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #120 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 5
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