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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: #119 / 415
Number of attempts: 2

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: #86 / 309
Number of attempts: 1

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: #165 / 553
Number of attempts: 9

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 90
Position: #310 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

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: #99 / 348
Number of attempts: 5

Substraction (bis) - 603 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 113
Number of attempts: 13

Poorly indented Python comments - 1315 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #60 / 221
Number of attempts: 20

Many duplicates - 1445 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #226 / 468
Number of attempts: 4

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: #25 / 154
Number of attempts: 11

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #243 / 555
Number of attempts: 9

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: #49 / 271
Number of attempts: 12

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #112 / 589
Number of attempts: 7

Visual block training - 1070 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #80 / 204
Number of attempts: 14

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: #175 / 556
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #66 / 209
Number of attempts: 17

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #410 / 708
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #103 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #49 / 185
Number of attempts: 13

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: 36
Position: #91 / 348
Number of attempts: 4

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #36 / 138
Number of attempts: 17

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: 28
Position: #23 / 64
Number of attempts: 9

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #135 / 380
Number of attempts: 6

Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #191 / 511
Number of attempts: 3

Python dataclasses - 1136 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #107 / 284
Number of attempts: 4

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: #53 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #152 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #94 / 323
Number of attempts: 6

Staircase - 149 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 34
Number of attempts: 14

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: #48 / 87
Number of attempts: 5

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 89
Number of attempts: 4

swap number pairs - 2103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #114 / 380
Number of attempts: 9

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: #85 / 236
Number of attempts: 7

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #41 / 112
Number of attempts: 7

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: 23
Position: #27 / 56
Number of attempts: 9

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #38 / 82
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4479 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #470 / 1097
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #197 / 471
Number of attempts: 9

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: 9
Position: #197 / 305
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #170 / 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: 19
Position: #71 / 169
Number of attempts: 6

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: 31
Position: #67 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

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: 22
Position: #89 / 229
Number of attempts: 11

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: 21
Position: #106 / 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: 16
Position: #126 / 204
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #38 / 52
Number of attempts: 7

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #39 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

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: #436 / 1537
Number of attempts: 4

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #31 / 42
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #40 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

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: #19 / 155
Number of attempts: 15

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries