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Create json from a .env file - 1518 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 55
Position: #135 / 353
Number of attempts: 4

Reordering properties - 1136 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 102
Position: #197 / 269
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and Tag - 676 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #10 / 140
Number of attempts: 20

Changing date formats - 687 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 40
Position: #16 / 188
Number of attempts: 12

YAML to dotenv - 1459 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 298
Number of attempts: 8

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 426 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #51 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

Generate an entry for each month - 369 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: 27
Position: #3 / 91
Number of attempts: 15

Fix the git merge conflicts - 313 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

Best score: 36
Best player score: 50
Position: #26 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

Nested JSON Flattener - 126 entries

Transform a deeply nested JSON structure into a flattened key-value format where each path is represented by dot notation

Best score: 44
Best player score: 56
Position: #10 / 29
Number of attempts: 12

The Fibonacci Spacer - 157 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: 44
Position: #20 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 303 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 59
Position: #37 / 80
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the Scala Method - 306 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: 22
Position: #35 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 568 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #32 / 132
Number of attempts: 12

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Reorganize Pokémon - 772 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #32 / 214
Number of attempts: 4

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 255 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 87
Number of attempts: 5

Convert plain text into a markdown table - 87 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

Best score: 56
Best player score: 121
Position: #20 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Change readonly files - 99 entries

Try to write a file that was marked as read-only.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #20 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 149 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 41
Position: #22 / 41
Number of attempts: 6

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 93 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xc4jQO7ck&t=1429s

Best score: 49
Best player score: 70
Position: #13 / 22
Number of attempts: 3

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 256 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #18 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 126 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #11 / 35
Number of attempts: 4

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 227 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: 66
Position: #33 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 456 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #16 / 107
Number of attempts: 13

Fix timezone format - 326 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: 15
Position: #20 / 105
Number of attempts: 6

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 322 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: 22
Position: #16 / 74
Number of attempts: 7

Remove adjacent duplicates - 666 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 167
Number of attempts: 10

Rearrange array to single level - 1720 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 289
Number of attempts: 11

Rearrange array to one line - 807 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #24 / 190
Number of attempts: 9

Copy punctuation - 682 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 166
Number of attempts: 16

Column wise pasting - 256 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #10 / 53
Number of attempts: 10

Deleting text - 329 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 41
Position: #15 / 103
Number of attempts: 4

Hex to binary - 120 entries

Convert hexadecimal numbers into binary format.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 40
Position: #15 / 23
Number of attempts: 4

Format a long line - 125 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 72
Position: #30 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 2095 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: 24
Position: #283 / 465
Number of attempts: 2

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 458 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #37 / 91
Number of attempts: 9

Find fix point of cos - 1468 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #294 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 442 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 73
Position: #24 / 99
Number of attempts: 13

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #112 / 576
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #67 / 277
Number of attempts: 10

Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 32
Position: #298 / 619
Number of attempts: 1

Java to JavaScript - 299 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #14 / 77
Number of attempts: 8

CSV to MD format - 448 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #16 / 98
Number of attempts: 9

Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #76 / 331
Number of attempts: 8

swap number pairs - 2168 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #60 / 392
Number of attempts: 12