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Played Challenges

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 439 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #126 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Generate an entry for each month - 372 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: 40
Position: #38 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Copy punctuation - 701 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 108
Position: #164 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #260 / 306
Number of attempts: 4

Enumerate Bullets - 337 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #63 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #79 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #253 / 393
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #88 / 244
Number of attempts: 6

Extend shell script - 155 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 53
Position: #29 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #54 / 116
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4581 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #490 / 1118
Number of attempts: 3

Satisfy the go linter - 2477 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: 27
Position: #336 / 493
Number of attempts: 4

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: #154 / 227
Number of attempts: 6

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 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: 22
Position: #111 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #1 / 535
Number of attempts: 3

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: 31
Position: #161 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 24
Position: #3147 / 7496
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #989 / 1287
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6381 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #767 / 1558
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2033 / 3896
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #201 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #112 / 590
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #500 / 864
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10930 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1971 / 3090
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #443 / 539
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #874 / 1179
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3970 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #532 / 903
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 855 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #391 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7991 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #1294 / 1896
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3232 / 4238
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #318 / 1274
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1460 / 2149
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2243 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: 13
Position: #402 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

Cartesian product - 267 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #55 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2528 / 3707
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2548 / 3981
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #209 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 300 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #66 / 106
Number of attempts: 7

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #41 / 99
Number of attempts: 6

The holy-grail may help - 392 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #165 / 217
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 898 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 52
Position: #216 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1560 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #409 / 603
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1700 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 446
Number of attempts: 9

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3967 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #637 / 847
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1458 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 45
Position: #310 / 372
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #2077 / 3863
Number of attempts: 4