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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1226 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 52
Position: #235 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Change to ascending order - 450 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 99
Position: #86 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 386 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #126 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Generate an entry for each month - 351 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: #78 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

The Fibonacci Spacer - 148 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: #38 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 284 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 108
Position: #59 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 287 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: #81 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 276 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 35
Position: #99 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 691 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #180 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 248 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: #73 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 142 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 69
Position: #33 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 236 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: #87 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 108 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 64
Position: #31 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 196 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: #59 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 434 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 118
Position: #94 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

Fix timezone format - 318 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: #101 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 314 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: #57 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Remove adjacent duplicates - 646 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #76 / 162
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1631 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: #244 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to one line - 758 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 79
Position: #175 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2651 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 46
Position: #485 / 616
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #67 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2146 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #341 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 913 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: #240 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Extend shell script - 138 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 79
Position: #42 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 39
Position: #85 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #551 / 1116
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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: #308 / 491
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 725 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 / 226
Number of attempts: 3

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 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: #173 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #405 / 534
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: #165 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #5750 / 7474
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1104 / 1282
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #853 / 1555
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3301 / 3889
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 31
Position: #554 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #631 / 863
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1790 / 3085
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #494 / 536
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1082 / 1177
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 44
Position: #842 / 892
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1207 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3674 / 4230
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1088 / 1273
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1456 / 2146
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2241 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: #569 / 682
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #467 / 510
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3228 / 3700
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2767 / 3977
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2921 / 3810
Number of attempts: 1