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Played Challenges

Fix the Scala Method - 105 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 23
Position: #21 / 38
Number of attempts: 5

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 68 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

Best score: 57
Best player score: 74
Position: #25 / 28
Number of attempts: 3

Markdown Blog Editing - 253 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 61
Position: #46 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Word completion - 179 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 164
Position: #48 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #23 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Remove adjacent duplicates - 445 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #87 / 117
Number of attempts: 3

Rearrange array to single level - 1298 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #98 / 205
Number of attempts: 4

Rearrange array to one line - 602 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #38 / 144
Number of attempts: 4

Copy punctuation - 487 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

Best score: 19
Best player score: 48
Position: #93 / 121
Number of attempts: 3

Column wise pasting - 172 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #24 / 37
Number of attempts: 5

Deleting text - 254 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #44 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

New teacher - 923 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #42 / 194
Number of attempts: 6

months to html list items - 1010 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #125 / 274
Number of attempts: 6

EDN reformat - 1158 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #97 / 164
Number of attempts: 14

Populate 3D bone names list - 629 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #96 / 162
Number of attempts: 3

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: 147
Position: #411 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

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: 100
Position: #98 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

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: #226 / 309
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 380
Position: #81 / 96
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: 19
Position: #290 / 553
Number of attempts: 3

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: 67
Position: #136 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #417 / 555
Number of attempts: 4

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: #195 / 556
Number of attempts: 5

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #425 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

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: 41
Position: #120 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #59 / 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: 13
Position: #664 / 1097
Number of attempts: 1

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: #257 / 302
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #402 / 524
Number of attempts: 2

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: 9
Position: #104 / 231
Number of attempts: 7

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: 13
Position: #272 / 851
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #163 / 322
Number of attempts: 4

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #181 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 326 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #79 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #446 / 503
Number of attempts: 3

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: #233 / 777
Number of attempts: 9

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #671 / 1748
Number of attempts: 2

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 404
Position: #68 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #88 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #189 / 220
Number of attempts: 4