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Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #38 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: 16
  • Position: #121 / 553
  • Number of attempts: 8
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 734 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #50 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 10
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: 26
  • Position: #108 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 8
Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #49 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 59
  • Position: #109 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #99 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 10
Java to JavaScript - 269 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 138
  • Position: #66 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #147 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #30 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 8
Migrated to Postgres! - 331 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #84 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 40
  • Position: #28 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python dataclasses - 1136 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #189 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 5
Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #96 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 5
Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #78 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 4
ssh config skills - 258 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #28 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #83 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 23
  • Position: #230 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 10
  • Position: #249 / 305
  • Number of attempts: 3
Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #38 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 10
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: 15
  • Position: #183 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 21
  • Position: #100 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #375 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 1
C# function to F# - 30 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert a C# function using a C# class to a F# function using a C# class.

  • Best score: 101
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #5 / 11
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 16
  • Position: #125 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #121 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #848 / 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: 23
  • Position: #679 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #39 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 2
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #68 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 34
  • Position: #59 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1078 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 4
Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #30 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 5
Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #16 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #146 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #118 / 141
  • 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: 31
  • Position: #148 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #625 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #148 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #876 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 2
Readable Rubyhash - 267 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #81 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #429 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #511 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 3
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