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Plotting some variables in python - 1661 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #118 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #23 / 138
Number of attempts: 9

Migrated to Postgres! - 331 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #55 / 131
Number of attempts: 3

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #110 / 380
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 44
Position: #33 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 1136 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #11 / 284
Number of attempts: 3

RUST HTML to maud. - 24 entries

RUST HTML to maud. maud is one of the template engines for server-side rendering based on rust. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 135
Best player score: 209
Position: #4 / 12
Number of attempts: 1

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: #32 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 111
Position: #35 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #33 / 205
Number of attempts: 4

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #21 / 323
Number of attempts: 7

swap number pairs - 2103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #121 / 380
Number of attempts: 4

HS Final exam vimgolf - 897 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #59 / 236
Number of attempts: 10

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #12 / 112
Number of attempts: 7

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #6 / 66
Number of attempts: 6

C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #12 / 30
Number of attempts: 6

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #49 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Format the CSS - 158 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: #16 / 49
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4479 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #61 / 1097
Number of attempts: 12

Satisfy the go linter - 2391 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: #101 / 471
Number of attempts: 10

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 954 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #32 / 305
Number of attempts: 7

Multiline to Single Line - 700 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #259 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 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: #103 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 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: 18
Position: #44 / 169
Number of attempts: 5

Capitalize the Names - 408 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: #34 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #268 / 524
Number of attempts: 6

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: #34 / 229
Number of attempts: 8

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #2291 / 7420
Number of attempts: 10

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #48 / 261
Number of attempts: 7

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #61 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #346 / 1268
Number of attempts: 6

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: 10
Position: #353 / 1537
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #827 / 3864
Number of attempts: 8

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #96 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

Aliases for cd - 879 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: #16 / 155
Number of attempts: 19

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #103 / 579
Number of attempts: 11

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1477 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #5 / 851
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #113 / 249
Number of attempts: 11

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #673 / 3063
Number of attempts: 7

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #26 / 525
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #476 / 1162
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #331 / 865
Number of attempts: 11

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #425 / 1876
Number of attempts: 10

citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 25 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 57
Best player score: 61
Position: #7 / 8
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1469 / 4197
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1134 / 1264
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #133 / 267
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #588 / 2128
Number of attempts: 12

One to Ten - 2219 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: #332 / 672
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #195 / 503
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #511 / 1190
Number of attempts: 5

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #54 / 107
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1110 / 4180
Number of attempts: 10

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1576 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #6 / 3963
Number of attempts: 13

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: 55
Position: #7 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #108 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #69 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 30
Position: #635 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #203 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1050 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: #525 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #185 / 245
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #209 / 344
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 77
Position: #202 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #194 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #412 / 563
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #651 / 3694
Number of attempts: 10