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Played Challenges

Fix the Scala Method - 37 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #3 / 16
Number of attempts: 3

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 172 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 184 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 72 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

Best score: 15
Best player score: 37
Position: #27 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Change readonly files - 8 entries

Try to write a file that was marked as read-only.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 53
Position: #4 / 5
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 24 entries

Can you extract all struct tags in the fewest keystrokes possible?

Best score: 33
Best player score: 40
Position: #7 / 10
Number of attempts: 7

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 54 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

Best score: 41
Best player score: 45
Position: #11 / 21
Number of attempts: 2

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 34 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #6 / 11
Number of attempts: 3

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 54 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: 65
Position: #10 / 22
Number of attempts: 2

Markdown Blog Editing - 242 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 42
Position: #24 / 58
Number of attempts: 5

Fix timezone format - 207 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: #32 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 134 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #22 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1166 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 59
Position: #175 / 192
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to one line - 571 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 30
Position: #120 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Copy punctuation - 460 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 145
Position: #108 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Column wise pasting - 147 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

Best score: 17
Best player score: 44
Position: #31 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

New teacher - 851 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 179
Number of attempts: 8

months to html list items - 971 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #118 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

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: #254 / 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: 31
Position: #98 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Find fix point of cos - 1382 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: #243 / 404
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: 18
Position: #260 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #380 / 549
Number of attempts: 3

HS exam question - 1577 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 61
Position: #133 / 415
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat symbols in list - 1607 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #206 / 345
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1773 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #375 / 549
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 42
Position: #425 / 589
Number of attempts: 2

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: 28
Position: #352 / 469
Number of attempts: 5

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: 10
Position: #255 / 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: #256 / 302
Number of attempts: 3

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 62
Position: #48 / 65
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: #150 / 221
Number of attempts: 9

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 19
Position: #42 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Readable Rubyhash - 267 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: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #74 / 95
Number of attempts: 4