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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 962 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #200 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Quicksort - 1890 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: 24
Position: #230 / 415
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 610 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #132 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 703 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 84
Position: #186 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1379 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: 16
Position: #264 / 402
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 546 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #205 / 304
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2518 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 549
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #288 / 467
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1773 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #334 / 549
Number of attempts: 6

Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #172 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2494 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #323 / 706
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1882 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 509
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #69 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #175 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #85 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2066 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #286 / 377
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #203 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4467 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 21
Position: #869 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2374 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: 38
Position: #431 / 469
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 952 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #90 / 304
Number of attempts: 4

Multiline to Single Line - 700 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #251 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #145 / 221
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #398 / 524
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 647 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 37
Position: #199 / 203
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #58 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6304 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #444 / 1536
Number of attempts: 9

Quote modules - 1073 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #217 / 280
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #57 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4973 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #880 / 1619
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 45
Position: #290 / 379
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2037 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #331 / 501
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 253
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 93
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 33
Position: #174 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 42
Position: #95 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #174 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2998 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #736 / 776
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2118 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #575 / 657
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 413
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 499 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #145 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #134 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5068 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #667 / 1747
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #403 / 405
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1045 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #566 / 660
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 128
Position: #67 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 410 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 37
Position: #95 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 473 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #16 / 176
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #373 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 405
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 495 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #171 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 126
Position: #56 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #497 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 405 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #134 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 49
Position: #241 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #326 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 55
Position: #197 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 582 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 37
Position: #152 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 693 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 47
Position: #178 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 85
Position: #164 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #124 / 228
Number of attempts: 4

Change the content of a string - 1556 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #540 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1431 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #484 / 556
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1484 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: 61
Position: #394 / 408
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 964 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 50
Position: #232 / 310
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #655 / 776
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #704 / 3671
Number of attempts: 10