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Played Challenges

vimtutor, but you can cheat - 21 entries

It's time to revisit vimtutor, but as an experienced Vim user! Your goal is to change the file to appear as if you had gone through the tutorial, but you do NOT need to actually complete the tutorial as written or do anything that doesn't result in changes to the file. You may use whatever you have in your Vim toolbelt that's allowed under VimGolf rules. The whole tutorial is too large to submit, so only the relevant lesson headers and associated practice lines are presented in this challenge. You will have to reference the tutor for the original instructions if you need them: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/4466ad6baa22485abb1147aca3340cced4778a66/runtime/tutor/tutor

Best score: 149
Best player score: 168
Position: #5 / 10
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33612 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: 23
Position: #2659 / 7416
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #472 / 1537
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18722 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1589 / 3860
Number of attempts: 1

TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #11 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

Separate the lines - 182 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1158 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #287 / 850
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #127 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #32 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10850 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #812 / 3062
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #263 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #512 / 1161
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3815 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #409 / 864
Number of attempts: 1

My cafe needs a new menu - 31 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

Best score: 126
Best player score: 157
Position: #7 / 8
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #218 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #14 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7904 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #815 / 1875
Number of attempts: 1

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #23 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #140 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #221 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1505 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #370 / 703
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #359 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #54 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #437 / 1621
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #69 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #4 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #456 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #220 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 50
Position: #16 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 50 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 51
Position: #11 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2162 / 4194
Number of attempts: 2

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #20 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #329 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #164 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #79 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #21 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 49
Position: #34 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 49 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: 42
Position: #125 / 379
Number of attempts: 1

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

Best score: 56
Best player score: 68
Position: #4 / 12
Number of attempts: 2

For all cases. - 161 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #25 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #65 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 88 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #21 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Back to the roots - 63 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #3 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 326 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Hidden Message - 93 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #12 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 117 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #3 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 984 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #137 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

42-header - 43 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #91 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #40 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1232 / 2125
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #37 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 32 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 90
Position: #10 / 14
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #51 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #42 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #173 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #93 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #23 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #167 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #47 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #52 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1092 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #192 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #5 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2209 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: 12
Position: #11 / 669
Number of attempts: 3

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #81 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2037 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #221 / 501
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Best score: 51
Best player score: 55
Position: #9 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #43 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #51 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 811 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #17 / 390
Number of attempts: 2

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #44 / 163
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #215 / 447
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #17 / 227
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #125 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #26 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 35
Position: #53 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #203 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #237 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #191 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #167 / 290
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #122 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1644 / 4177
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #623 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #262 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #84 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #178 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 14
Position: #360 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #378 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #70 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3511 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #529 / 698
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1551 / 3961
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #221 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #97 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #64 / 196
Number of attempts: 5

Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #13 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 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: 11
Position: #146 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #211 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 607 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #80 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 35
Position: #31 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 25
Position: #181 / 480
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #290 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #274 / 777
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2136 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #287 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #94 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: 15
Position: #103 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #258 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #298 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1048 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #493 / 663
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #22 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1339 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #373 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #160 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 589 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: #64 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 757 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #73 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #157 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12765 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2251 / 3684
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6942 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #470 / 1699
Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

One to Ten - 2209 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Flip the bit - 130 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

vimtutor, but you can cheat - 21 entries

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vimtutor, but you can cheat - 21 entries

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remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

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multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

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Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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That hyphen - 2595 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

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The D a n k Side of the Moon - 50 entries

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create arrows in a list - 117 entries

Adam's challenge - 984 entries

42-header - 43 entries

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Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

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Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

7th Birthday - 202 entries

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 32 entries

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

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Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Array of characters - 175 entries

comments galore - 1045 entries

Mirrored text - 177 entries

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

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A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

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