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Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python. - 144 entries

Swap function parameters and delete all comments in python.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Delete the last function argument in python. - 134 entries

Delete the last function argument in this python script.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #39 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Create json from a .env file - 1585 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 78
Position: #278 / 376
Number of attempts: 2

Reordering properties - 1220 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: 69
Position: #123 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

YAML to dotenv - 1542 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 33
Position: #237 / 316
Number of attempts: 1

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 447 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #102 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the git merge conflicts - 332 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

Best score: 36
Best player score: 60
Position: #61 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 338 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: 25
Position: #64 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 617 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #84 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 312 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #71 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Reorganize Pokémon - 829 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #180 / 226
Number of attempts: 2

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 270 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #83 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 153 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 50
Position: #32 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 99 entries

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

Best score: 49
Best player score: 87
Position: #22 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 270 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 47
Position: #77 / 107
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: 73
Position: #57 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Fix timezone format - 330 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: 19
Position: #79 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

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: 32
Position: #65 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Move to corresponding lines - 320 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #66 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to single level - 1791 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #164 / 299
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #65 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

Copy punctuation - 715 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 59
Position: #143 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

New teacher - 1480 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #237 / 310
Number of attempts: 1

Remove line numbers - 779 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: 15
Position: #122 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 30
Position: #796 / 907
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #649 / 765
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #545 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #956 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1467 / 2151
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 36
Position: #106 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #374 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #224 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 820 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #232 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #881 / 1142
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1167 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #172 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2036 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #545 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 889 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #416 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 539 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #183 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 203 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #82 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 435 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #176 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1624 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 15
Position: #420 / 453
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2094 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #403 / 484
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1141 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #442 / 453
Number of attempts: 1

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 364 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #79 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #663 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 466 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #128 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1561 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #498 / 604
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1704 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: 25
Position: #373 / 448
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 55
Position: #817 / 848
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #3239 / 3865
Number of attempts: 1

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