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Played Challenges

Fix timezone format - 225 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #38 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

New teacher - 923 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #66 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

months to html list items - 1010 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #114 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 1962 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: 7
Position: #145 / 431
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1402 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: 15
Position: #101 / 415
Number of attempts: 5

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: 21
Position: #321 / 553
Number of attempts: 1

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: 63
Position: #107 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 55
Position: #76 / 417
Number of attempts: 6

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: 25
Position: #97 / 348
Number of attempts: 4

Substraction (bis) - 603 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

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: #35 / 221
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1445 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #227 / 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: #23 / 154
Number of attempts: 6

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #242 / 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: 44
Position: #144 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #267 / 708
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #102 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #31 / 130
Number of attempts: 7

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: #49 / 348
Number of attempts: 8

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 79
Position: #49 / 94
Number of attempts: 3

Python dataclasses - 1136 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #56 / 284
Number of attempts: 3

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #140 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #150 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

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: 24
Position: #45 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #109 / 380
Number of attempts: 3

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: 28
Position: #142 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #37 / 112
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: 10
Position: #467 / 1097
Number of attempts: 3

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: 24
Position: #253 / 471
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #383 / 524
Number of attempts: 1

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: #2383 / 7420
Number of attempts: 8

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: #432 / 1537
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #134 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #439 / 579
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #152 / 231
Number of attempts: 6

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: #22 / 851
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #101 / 258
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1765 / 3063
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #305 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #850 / 1162
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1198 / 1876
Number of attempts: 1

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #121 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #240 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #525 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #716 / 1624
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3189 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #499 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #127 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #161 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 140
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #139 / 267
Number of attempts: 5

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: 15
Position: #126 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #89 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #138 / 151
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #252 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #89 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #45 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #123 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #117 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #45 / 448
Number of attempts: 10

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 70
Number of attempts: 7

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #501 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #173 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #512 / 1078
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #228 / 777
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #146 / 193
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: #1957 / 3694
Number of attempts: 1