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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 960 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #9 / 256
Number of attempts: 5

Easier Align - 393 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 62
Position: #15 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2514 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #91 / 548
Number of attempts: 1

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: 41
Position: #59 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1773 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #317 / 549
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: 29
Position: #61 / 271
Number of attempts: 16

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #10 / 203
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1882 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #221 / 509
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #32 / 94
Number of attempts: 6

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #170 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1388 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #70 / 319
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #2394 / 7407
Number of attempts: 2

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #33 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 59
Position: #5 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #305 / 1263
Number of attempts: 1

Create Leading Zeros - 239 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #9 / 81
Number of attempts: 6

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #109 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

JSON string rotation - 60 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 21
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #619 / 2125
Number of attempts: 8

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 65
Number of attempts: 11

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #302 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #55 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #4 / 34
Number of attempts: 8

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #13 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #27 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Entries sort - 90 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #528 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #54 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #135 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

Interleave lines - 185 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 60
Number of attempts: 10

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 24
Number of attempts: 9

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #64 / 290
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #12 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #18 / 25
Number of attempts: 6

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 800 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: 13
Position: #100 / 245
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #25 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #182 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1242 / 4175
Number of attempts: 4

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #129 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #736 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #134 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 67
Number of attempts: 10

Five Pillars - 63 entries

Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #6 / 24
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 350 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 127
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2508 / 3679
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3157 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: 14
Position: #365 / 1076
Number of attempts: 1

Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Position: #22 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 362 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #37 / 135
Number of attempts: 11

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #37 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #6 / 23
Number of attempts: 4

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #5 / 68
Number of attempts: 20

Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 472 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #66 / 214
Number of attempts: 1