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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1639 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 52
Position: #310 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Change to ascending order - 560 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 99
Position: #106 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 504 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #156 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Generate an entry for each month - 397 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: #92 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

The Fibonacci Spacer - 175 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: 14
Best player score: 86
Position: #48 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 347 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 108
Position: #77 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 379 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: #107 / 126
Number of attempts: 2

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 330 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 35
Position: #120 / 124
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 894 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #236 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 312 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: #85 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 174 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 69
Position: #42 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 303 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: #115 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 156 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 64
Position: #42 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 252 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: #71 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 487 entries

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

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

Fix timezone format - 383 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: #123 / 124
Number of attempts: 2

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 363 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: #66 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

Remove adjacent duplicates - 729 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #84 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1829 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: #278 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to one line - 897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 79
Position: #200 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2691 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 46
Position: #500 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 256 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #68 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #343 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 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: #244 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Extend shell script - 156 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 79
Position: #44 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 406 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 39
Position: #88 / 119
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #557 / 1124
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2496 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: #311 / 504
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 754 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 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 797 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: #175 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #405 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 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: #167 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #5776 / 7519
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1111 / 1294
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6399 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #859 / 1564
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3313 / 3906
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 31
Position: #560 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #636 / 868
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1796 / 3098
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #499 / 543
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1091 / 1187
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 44
Position: #859 / 910
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1213 / 1901
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3693 / 4261
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1096 / 1281
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1462 / 2158
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2260 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: #574 / 689
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2095 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #472 / 515
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3241 / 3717
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2777 / 3993
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2991 / 3914
Number of attempts: 1