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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1542 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 52
Position: #286 / 316
Number of attempts: 1

Change to ascending order - 500 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 99
Position: #95 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 447 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #139 / 162
Number of attempts: 2

Generate an entry for each month - 372 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: #84 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

The Fibonacci Spacer - 161 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: #44 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 309 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 108
Position: #71 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 338 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: #95 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

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: 35
Position: #111 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 829 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #215 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #79 / 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: 69
Position: #38 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

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: 58
Position: #102 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

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: 64
Position: #37 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

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: 76
Position: #65 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 467 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 118
Position: #100 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Fix timezone format - 330 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: #107 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

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: 32
Position: #62 / 79
Number of attempts: 3

Remove adjacent duplicates - 692 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #81 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

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: 58
Position: #271 / 299
Number of attempts: 1

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: 79
Position: #190 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 46
Position: #490 / 622
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 - 2169 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #342 / 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: 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 - 4591 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #555 / 1120
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: #310 / 494
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 - 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: 31
Position: #5763 / 7498
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1108 / 1289
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #857 / 1559
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3307 / 3898
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 31
Position: #558 / 591
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #633 / 865
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1794 / 3091
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #497 / 540
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1086 / 1181
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 44
Position: #856 / 907
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1211 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3681 / 4240
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1092 / 1277
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1459 / 2151
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2246 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: #571 / 684
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #471 / 514
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3235 / 3710
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2770 / 3983
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2954 / 3865
Number of attempts: 1