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Played Challenges

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: 25
Position: #121 / 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: 40
Position: #38 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

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: 108
Position: #159 / 166
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 - 2168 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #253 / 392
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 - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #490 / 1117
Number of attempts: 3

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 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 / 492
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 - 33929 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: #3145 / 7489
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #988 / 1284
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #767 / 1557
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2031 / 3893
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 - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1969 / 3087
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 - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #532 / 901
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #390 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #1294 / 1895
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3231 / 4234
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 - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1459 / 2147
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 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2527 / 3703
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2547 / 3979
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 - 391 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #165 / 216
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 897 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 52
Position: #215 / 223
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #409 / 601
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 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 / 445
Number of attempts: 9

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #634 / 841
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 45
Position: #307 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #2074 / 3845
Number of attempts: 4