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Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 554 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #84 / 309
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 62
Position: #13 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2537 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #45 / 553
Number of attempts: 1

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 408 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: 28
Position: #64 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #11 / 417
Number of attempts: 16

Reformat symbols in list - 1621 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 348
Number of attempts: 5

Fizzbuzz - 573 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 47
Position: #14 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 603 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #16 / 113
Number of attempts: 13

Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #15 / 93
Number of attempts: 7

Poorly indented Python comments - 1315 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1445 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #15 / 468
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #18 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #147 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 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: #39 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #37 / 589
Number of attempts: 3

Visual block training - 1070 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #5 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1657 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #179 / 556
Number of attempts: 4

Java to JavaScript - 269 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #9 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #38 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #44 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #18 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 54 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

Best score: 46
Best player score: 48
Position: #7 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 959 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: #26 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 130
Number of attempts: 4

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: 34
Position: #45 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #16 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #10 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Lowercase first characters - 487 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #28 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 107 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 75
Position: #4 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Migrated to Postgres! - 331 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #11 / 131
Number of attempts: 5

Increment number for every 10 lines - 230 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #5 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #66 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #178 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #11 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1136 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #57 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Count to 100 in word form - 138 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 55
Position: #7 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #160 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #55 / 323
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 323 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #11 / 89
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: 23
Position: #175 / 380
Number of attempts: 3

Extend shell script - 134 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #6 / 45
Number of attempts: 1

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: #12 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 309 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: #21 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

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: 49
Position: #8 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

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

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: 42
Position: #12 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4479 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #197 / 1097
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #290 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #23 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #3 / 31
Number of attempts: 12

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #129 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 100
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: 33
Position: #258 / 563
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 625 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #100 / 183
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #127 / 412
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #162 / 787
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: 14
Position: #1965 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #315 / 1706
Number of attempts: 2

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Working through Vimgolf example till the top or second top score, to be able to see all of the solutions, and practice them.