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Find the devices that have no revoked time, and extract out the duration left on their leases. - 31 entries

Extract non-revoked devices and the duration of their leases.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 63
Position: #5 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Convert list of enums to list of localization terms - 88 entries

While making my game Piloteer, I had a large list of TaskTypes and needed to convert them to an equivalent list of localization terms, to be used when translating the game's text into different languages.

Best score: 75
Best player score: 99
Position: #8 / 30
Number of attempts: 5

From brakets to parens - 885 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #132 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Create json from a .env file - 1490 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 48
Position: #104 / 348
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and Tag - 675 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: 71
Position: #55 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

Changing date formats - 686 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 91
Position: #119 / 187
Number of attempts: 4

YAML to dotenv - 1436 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #128 / 296
Number of attempts: 2

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 411 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 152
Number of attempts: 4

Generate an entry for each month - 364 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: 31
Position: #5 / 90
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the git merge conflicts - 311 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

Best score: 36
Best player score: 53
Position: #33 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

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: #24 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Fix timezone format - 324 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: 16
Position: #37 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Rearrange array to single level - 1714 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: #20 / 287
Number of attempts: 11

Rearrange array to one line - 805 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #30 / 189
Number of attempts: 10

Count words - 112 entries

Merge duplicates and count each word.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #8 / 25
Number of attempts: 9

Format a long line - 125 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #18 / 34
Number of attempts: 6

Find anomalies - 163 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 70
Position: #36 / 44
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: 29
Position: #25 / 91
Number of attempts: 7

Remove line numbers - 778 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #85 / 205
Number of attempts: 5

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 575 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #247 / 323
Number of attempts: 1

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: #116 / 576
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat symbols in list - 1648 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #172 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #393 / 570
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 31
Position: #286 / 619
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1678 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 563
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #54 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #350 / 722
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33927 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: 22
Position: #2428 / 7488
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #531 / 1284
Number of attempts: 4

Wget failed to download redirections - 213 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 68
Number of attempts: 7

Com(m)a Trouble - 3960 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #187 / 900
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 851 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #343 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #757 / 1643
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3240 / 4234
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #264 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 182 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #38 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #312 / 430
Number of attempts: 1

Separating firstname & lastname - 172 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 60
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 456 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #151 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2061 / 4208
Number of attempts: 2

Execute immediate SQL - 92 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 75
Position: #23 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Changing URL path in CSS - 144 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 56
Position: #54 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 207 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 48
Position: #62 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 168 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #12 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2608 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #517 / 770
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 265 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #40 / 73
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #236 / 783
Number of attempts: 5

Remove noise from HTTP log - 732 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #203 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 669 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #140 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1014 / 1756
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1015 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #80 / 195
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #207 / 654
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 550 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #48 / 151
Number of attempts: 5

Case preserving word replacement - 463 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #83 / 182
Number of attempts: 7

imports alignment (python) - 704 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #150 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #80 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #91 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

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: #168 / 216
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 897 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #77 / 223
Number of attempts: 9

Sorting paragraphs - 556 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #60 / 166
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 594 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #135 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 635 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #126 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 629 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #73 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 794 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #99 / 229
Number of attempts: 5

Get rid of html tags - 440 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1736 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #260 / 635
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1552 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #442 / 599
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1690 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: 21
Position: #269 / 444
Number of attempts: 3

Flodder-challenge - 1436 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 36
Position: #199 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13371 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2395 / 3835
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7480 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 41
Position: #979 / 1841
Number of attempts: 4