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Played Challenges

Reorganize Pokémon - 776 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #142 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 255 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #6 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Fix timezone format - 329 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #92 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 328 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: 33
Position: #63 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #246 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #275 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1468 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: #252 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #284 / 576
Number of attempts: 2

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 56
Position: #67 / 184
Number of attempts: 6

HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 76
Position: #249 / 420
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #108 / 355
Number of attempts: 6

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #320 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #382 / 570
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 47
Position: #168 / 277
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 57
Position: #546 / 619
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1861 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #142 / 399
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #358 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #179 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #102 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 93
Number of attempts: 4

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #252 / 393
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #39 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #44 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #75 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Format the CSS - 165 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 46
Position: #32 / 50
Number of attempts: 5

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #486 / 1117
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #167 / 492
Number of attempts: 4

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #219 / 327
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #258 / 319
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: #151 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

Capitalize the Names - 429 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #71 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #178 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #764 / 1557
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #150 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5045 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1094 / 1644
Number of attempts: 3

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #139 / 232
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #646 / 783
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1065 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #266 / 422
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1013 / 1756
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #327 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 37
Position: #123 / 195
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #66 / 151
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #319 / 654
Number of attempts: 5

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 216
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1286 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #251 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2062 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 25
Position: #498 / 525
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1070 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: #585 / 673
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #378 / 463
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 594 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #158 / 251
Number of attempts: 5

Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #98 / 145
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #339 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 795 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #97 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #236 / 639
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #290 / 601
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 1140 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #90 / 349
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #2054 / 3849
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7517 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1057 / 1851
Number of attempts: 1