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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 396 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 52
Position: #88 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Change to ascending order - 236 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 99
Position: #47 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 187 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #60 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Generate an entry for each month - 163 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: #42 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

The Fibonacci Spacer - 85 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: #26 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 170 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 108
Position: #43 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 138 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 32
Position: #46 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 176 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 35
Position: #66 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 426 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #113 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 130 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: #43 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 53 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 69
Position: #19 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 134 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: #54 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 55 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 64
Position: #17 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 78 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: #31 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 294 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 118
Position: #63 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the shell script! - 2552 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 46
Position: #465 / 593
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 226 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #67 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2114 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #334 / 383
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 898 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: #236 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Extend shell script - 135 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 79
Position: #40 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 378 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 39
Position: #84 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4512 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #545 / 1105
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2393 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: #301 / 472
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 710 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 / 223
Number of attempts: 3

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 775 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: #170 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1133 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #404 / 526
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1148 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: #163 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33715 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: #5733 / 7440
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1100 / 1273
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6329 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #848 / 1544
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3290 / 3869
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 31
Position: #549 / 582
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2890 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #624 / 855
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10879 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1786 / 3071
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #487 / 528
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3597 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1073 / 1167
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3865 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 44
Position: #825 / 873
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1202 / 1880
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3658 / 4206
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1083 / 1268
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7937 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1452 / 2136
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2225 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: #565 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2054 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #463 / 506
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3217 / 3687
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2761 / 3968
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12955 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2865 / 3730
Number of attempts: 1