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Played Challenges

Reorganize Pokémon - 426 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 117
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1379 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 223
Number of attempts: 9

Rearrange array to one line - 665 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #41 / 159
Number of attempts: 6

New teacher - 1053 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #71 / 226
Number of attempts: 6

months to html list items - 1038 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #152 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2001 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #165 / 439
Number of attempts: 5

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #239 / 314
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2547 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #234 / 556
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #169 / 349
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the shell script! - 2552 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #220 / 593
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 329 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #183 / 206
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: 18
Position: #136 / 383
Number of attempts: 9

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: 15
Position: #1004 / 1544
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #217 / 582
Number of attempts: 6

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: 13
Position: #276 / 855
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #123 / 259
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: #1787 / 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: 22
Position: #337 / 528
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #237 / 635
Number of attempts: 10

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3597 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #508 / 1167
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #815 / 1880
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1521 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #221 / 381
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1509 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #273 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #270 / 704
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #551 / 755
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #220 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #286 / 589
Number of attempts: 5

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 264 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #132 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 893 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #104 / 214
Number of attempts: 6

Adam's challenge - 987 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #130 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #146 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #371 / 676
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2054 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #203 / 506
Number of attempts: 7

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #184 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 815 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #269 / 393
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #142 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #97 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #175 / 449
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2049 / 4188
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #542 / 586
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2016 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #289 / 518
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7124 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 35
Position: #405 / 1745
Number of attempts: 8