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Quicksort - 1838 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #6 / 403
Number of attempts: 5

EDN reformat - 1102 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 154
Number of attempts: 9

Remove line numbers - 671 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 182
Number of attempts: 3

Find fix point of cos - 1303 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #32 / 381
Number of attempts: 9

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 532 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #133 / 294
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2477 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #70 / 535
Number of attempts: 8

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 398 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #25 / 113
Number of attempts: 4

Fizzbuzz - 556 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 47
Position: #16 / 165
Number of attempts: 25

Many duplicates - 1420 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #29 / 458
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1250 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #54 / 270
Number of attempts: 20

Fix the shell script! - 2540 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #158 / 587
Number of attempts: 9

Visual block training - 1069 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #7 / 203
Number of attempts: 15

Java to JavaScript - 267 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #11 / 72
Number of attempts: 15

Wikitext headings to markdown - 986 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #43 / 208
Number of attempts: 23

hello-world-vimgolf - 2481 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #83 / 702
Number of attempts: 6

Fill in the chess board - 947 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #31 / 181
Number of attempts: 23

Plotting some variables in python - 1660 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: 34
Position: #50 / 347
Number of attempts: 11

Transpose a python matrix - 871 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #18 / 137
Number of attempts: 12

simple replacements - 1749 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #36 / 379
Number of attempts: 12

Inverting Lines - 1879 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #130 / 507
Number of attempts: 8

Python dataclasses - 1127 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #60 / 283
Number of attempts: 3

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 324 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #70 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 894 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #22 / 235
Number of attempts: 10

Extend shell script - 134 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #7 / 45
Number of attempts: 7

Turn the x - 326 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 81
Number of attempts: 6

Rural Post - 4450 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #170 / 1089
Number of attempts: 8

Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: #114 / 467
Number of attempts: 13

Capitalize the Names - 407 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: #47 / 96
Number of attempts: 7

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #387 / 522
Number of attempts: 4

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #57 / 259
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #435 / 1532
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #732 / 3058
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3779 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #167 / 854
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4951 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1067 / 1614
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: 33
Position: #17 / 47
Number of attempts: 11

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 61
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #107 / 253
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #524 / 1190
Number of attempts: 6

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #75 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #305 / 1137
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #110 / 645
Number of attempts: 10

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 145
Number of attempts: 7

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #158 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 691 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 205
Number of attempts: 12

Remember FizzBuzz? - 712 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #13 / 187
Number of attempts: 11

Change the content of a string - 1536 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #214 / 576
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3559 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #32 / 768
Number of attempts: 12

Simple text editing with Vim - 12616 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #693 / 3650
Number of attempts: 5

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