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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Create json from a .env file - 1682 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #306 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 322 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #101 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 875 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #141 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 3
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 310 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: #93 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
extract struct tag in go - 164 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #19 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 111 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: #19 / 29
  • 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: 45
  • Position: #36 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 148 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #25 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 71
  • Position: #58 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Word completion - 310 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 138
  • Position: #72 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
  • Position: #26 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 4
Move to corresponding lines - 334 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #65 / 76
  • 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: 18
  • Position: #60 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 18
  • Position: #79 / 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: 47
  • Position: #127 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 1
Column wise pasting - 268 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #13 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 5
Deleting text - 350 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #13 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1527 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #190 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1151 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #104 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #2843 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #648 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #451 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1570 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1792 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1212 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3219 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #545 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1134 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reorder the groups - 1201 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #128 / 270
  • 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 - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2064 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1613 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1885 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #122 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 5
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