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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 523 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 52
Position: #110 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

Change to ascending order - 257 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 99
Position: #51 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 222 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #71 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Generate an entry for each month - 175 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

Best score: 27
Best player score: 113
Position: #46 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

The Fibonacci Spacer - 86 entries

Split the words, remove punctuation and add spaces before each line following the Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89)

Best score: 25
Best player score: 86
Position: #27 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 179 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

Best score: 29
Best player score: 108
Position: #45 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Scala Method - 162 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: 32
Position: #50 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 187 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

Best score: 13
Best player score: 35
Position: #69 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 465 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #121 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 145 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #47 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

extract struct tag in go - 56 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 69
Position: #20 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 146 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 58
Position: #58 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 56 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 64
Position: #18 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 90 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: 76
Position: #36 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Markdown Blog Editing - 303 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 118
Position: #65 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

Fix timezone format - 253 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: 30
Position: #85 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 220 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: 32
Position: #45 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

Remove adjacent duplicates - 531 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #62 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Rearrange array to single level - 1396 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 58
Position: #206 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Rearrange array to one line - 667 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 79
Position: #155 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 46
Position: #474 / 603
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 228 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #67 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #335 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 208
Position: #237 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Extend shell script - 137 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 79
Position: #41 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 39
Position: #85 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4532 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #547 / 1107
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: 26
Position: #303 / 481
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 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: #153 / 224
Number of attempts: 3

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 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: 53
Position: #171 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #405 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 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: 33
Position: #164 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 31
Position: #5734 / 7442
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1101 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #849 / 1546
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3291 / 3870
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 31
Position: #550 / 583
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #626 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1786 / 3072
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #488 / 530
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1075 / 1169
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 44
Position: #827 / 876
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #1202 / 1881
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3660 / 4209
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1084 / 1269
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1453 / 2138
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2227 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #566 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #464 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3219 / 3689
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2762 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #2871 / 3739
Number of attempts: 1