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Played Challenges

delete swap - 729 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #163 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1157 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #161 / 399
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1436 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #5 / 395
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 281 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 54
Position: #46 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 143 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 1664 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #98 / 311
Number of attempts: 6

HS Final exam vimgolf - 745 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #72 / 200
Number of attempts: 3

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 258 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2 / 49
Number of attempts: 5

Python: Def to Lambda - 392 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 263 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #38 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

Format the CSS - 102 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #8 / 39
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4152 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #497 / 1029
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2031 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: 20
Position: #25 / 412
Number of attempts: 6

Multiline to Single Line - 552 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #14 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 241 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 43
Position: #21 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 613 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: #5 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 711 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: 20
Position: #66 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Capitalize the Names - 328 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #5 / 83
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1066 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #14 / 489
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1047 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: 21
Position: #2 / 211
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33028 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: #66 / 7289
Number of attempts: 12

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 841 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 243
Number of attempts: 8

Get mail address from outlook format - 600 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #97 / 188
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 134 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

Add text at some column - 146 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #13 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6059 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #144 / 1481
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1022 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 261
Number of attempts: 10

Aliases for cd - 819 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #11 / 146
Number of attempts: 18

Quote modules (ver.2) - 196 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #18 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4647 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #880 / 1861
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2768 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #147 / 821
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 294 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 65
Number of attempts: 13

Add semicolons - 10714 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #888 / 3018
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 1949 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #41 / 496
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7718 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #626 / 1841
Number of attempts: 5

html paragraph to table - 583 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #67 / 121
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1324 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 252
Number of attempts: 9

Triangle of arrows - 144 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #5 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15804 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2034 / 4123
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 968 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #59 / 344
Number of attempts: 5

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #247 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12775 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1184 / 3926
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 393 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: 10
Position: #53 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1973 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: 20
Position: #7 / 468
Number of attempts: 7

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1036 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #73 / 425
Number of attempts: 5

Alphabet soup - 396 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #16 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2386 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #313 / 723
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 1996 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #57 / 632
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 4974 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #150 / 1715
Number of attempts: 5

Generate English Alphabets - 449 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #21 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 984 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #70 / 332
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 11742 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #146 / 3442
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6123 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #57 / 1511
Number of attempts: 6

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