Played Challenges
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #40 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 165 entries
col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #10 / 73
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #59 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
formatted text to markdown - 183 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
- Best score: 70
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #5 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 156 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #19 / 67
- Number of attempts: 3
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #115 / 194
- Number of attempts: 5
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #9 / 163
- Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #175 / 639
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #80 / 215
- Number of attempts: 6
Compile C - 365 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #112 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #829 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #181 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 6
Mikael Gustavsson
Twitter: @slvmnd
Software developer based in China, CTO at gobreaktheice.com.