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Played Challenges

Flip All Bits - 66 entries

Perform a bitwise NOT operation on each bit, meaning that bits that are 0 become 1, and those that are 1 become 0.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #14 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find the devices that have no revoked time, and extract out the duration left on their leases. - 101 entries

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

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #6 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 4
Convert list of enums to list of localization terms - 149 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: 119
  • Position: #27 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 2
From brakets to parens - 1103 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: 41
  • Position: #160 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 2
π - 292 entries

1200 π chars

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #34 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 6
Create json from a .env file - 1569 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 67
  • Position: #218 / 369
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reordering properties - 1212 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: 67
  • Position: #118 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Changing date formats - 708 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #69 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 1
YAML to dotenv - 1527 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #64 / 312
  • Number of attempts: 7
Change to ascending order - 500 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #72 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
  • Position: #71 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 32
  • Position: #20 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the git merge conflicts - 331 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #43 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
Nested JSON Flattener - 132 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: #14 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 6
The Fibonacci Spacer - 161 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: 75
  • Position: #39 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 308 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #27 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Scala Method - 336 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: #48 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 602 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #64 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 299 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #69 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 821 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #70 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 6
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 262 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: #41 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 3
Convert plain text into a markdown table - 96 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #12 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change readonly files - 112 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #11 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 5
extract struct tag in go - 152 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #20 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 2
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 98 entries

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

  • Best score: 49
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #10 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 2
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 266 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #31 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 4
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 134 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #24 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 228 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: 68
  • Position: #46 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 2
Markdown Blog Editing - 467 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #50 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 336 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: 23
  • Position: #29 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove adjacent duplicates - 684 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #60 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 5
Move to corresponding lines - 319 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #8 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 11
Rearrange array to single level - 1768 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #95 / 296
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rearrange array to one line - 840 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #105 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
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