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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 92
Position: #315 / 417
Number of attempts: 7

delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #163 / 557
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #235 / 603
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #406 / 709
Number of attempts: 7

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #283 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 1187 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #102 / 294
Number of attempts: 6

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #38 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #200 / 384
Number of attempts: 10

HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #148 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 39
Position: #82 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4532 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #258 / 1107
Number of attempts: 5

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: 27
Position: #314 / 481
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 731 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #69 / 310
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #190 / 529
Number of attempts: 4

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 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: 28
Position: #128 / 232
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: #2778 / 7442
Number of attempts: 3

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #176 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #328 / 1274
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #252 / 1546
Number of attempts: 12

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3106 / 3870
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 43
Position: #267 / 283
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #208 / 583
Number of attempts: 15

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #173 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #599 / 3072
Number of attempts: 5

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #380 / 530
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #428 / 1169
Number of attempts: 7

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #320 / 876
Number of attempts: 4

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #119 / 230
Number of attempts: 11

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #620 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #273 / 641
Number of attempts: 12

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #654 / 1630
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3094 / 4209
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #466 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #79 / 179
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #229 / 1269
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 331 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #48 / 123
Number of attempts: 12

Hidden Message - 93 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 51
Position: #26 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 267
Number of attempts: 14

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #1970 / 2138
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: 27
Position: #55 / 77
Number of attempts: 11

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #155 / 184
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2227 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: #293 / 677
Number of attempts: 8

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: 14
Position: #58 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #217 / 249
Number of attempts: 17

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #348 / 449
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 62
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #97 / 256
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #492 / 1191
Number of attempts: 13

VimGolfNight - 568 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #273 / 349
Number of attempts: 3

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #38 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3381 / 4189
Number of attempts: 5

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #148 / 161
Number of attempts: 4

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 50
Position: #60 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #411 / 1138
Number of attempts: 7

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #130 / 354
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 11
Position: #124 / 586
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #507 / 1079
Number of attempts: 7

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2749 / 3969
Number of attempts: 4

Draw the Go board - 149 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 93
Position: #48 / 51
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 423 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #180 / 231
Number of attempts: 4

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #83 / 174
Number of attempts: 6

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #48 / 61
Number of attempts: 20

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #121 / 196
Number of attempts: 4

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 40
Position: #16 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #501 / 757
Number of attempts: 9

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 40
Position: #197 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #983 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #296 / 363
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 69
Position: #197 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2018 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #156 / 519
Number of attempts: 13

Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 178
Number of attempts: 11

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 460
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 397
Position: #146 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2323 / 3739
Number of attempts: 4

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