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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1459 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #270 / 298
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change to ascending order - 485 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 99
  • Position: #92 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 426 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #132 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate an entry for each month - 369 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: 113
  • Position: #83 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Fibonacci Spacer - 157 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: 25
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #43 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 303 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 108
  • Position: #66 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Scala Method - 306 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #86 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 290 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #104 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reorganize Pokémon - 772 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #203 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 21
  • Position: #76 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 1
extract struct tag in go - 149 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 69
  • Position: #35 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 256 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #96 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 126 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #35 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 1
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 227 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: 76
  • Position: #64 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Markdown Blog Editing - 456 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 118
  • Position: #99 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix timezone format - 326 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: 30
  • Position: #105 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 322 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: #59 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove adjacent duplicates - 666 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #78 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rearrange array to single level - 1720 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #261 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to one line - 807 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #183 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #488 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #68 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2168 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #342 / 392
  • 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: 208
  • Position: #243 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extend shell script - 155 entries

Just add some more stuff

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #43 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #86 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #552 / 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: 26
  • Position: #309 / 492
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #153 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 3
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #174 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #405 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #166 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 31
  • Position: #5758 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1105 / 1284
  • 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: 13
  • Position: #855 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3303 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #557 / 590
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #632 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1792 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #496 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1084 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #850 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1210 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3677 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1089 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1457 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2243 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #570 / 683
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2087 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #470 / 513
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3231 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2768 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2947 / 3845
  • Number of attempts: 1
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