VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

New teacher - 836 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #29 / 174
Number of attempts: 8

months to html list items - 957 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #150 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 409 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 83
Position: #79 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 694 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 53
Position: #175 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1352 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: 60
Position: #364 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 445 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

Best score: 33
Best player score: 64
Position: #73 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 538 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #193 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2504 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #339 / 547
Number of attempts: 2

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 401 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 106
Position: #113 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 721 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: 87
Position: #163 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

HS exam question - 1577 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 106
Position: #348 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 272
Position: #159 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #282 / 467
Number of attempts: 5

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 74
Position: #127 / 153
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1768 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #321 / 548
Number of attempts: 5

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: 117
Position: #254 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #308 / 589
Number of attempts: 4

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 54
Position: #149 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #203 / 555
Number of attempts: 7

Wikitext headings to markdown - 986 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 71
Position: #192 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2490 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #575 / 705
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 270
Number of attempts: 6

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 96
Position: #48 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #87 / 130
Number of attempts: 5

Plotting some variables in python - 1660 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 52
Position: #221 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Migrated to Postgres! - 323 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 46
Position: #121 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33575 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: 25
Position: #3408 / 7406
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4609 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 1266
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18709 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #2856 / 3856
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #677 / 703
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #442 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #772 / 4185
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #231 / 2125
Number of attempts: 6

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #176 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15967 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #3869 / 4174
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10656 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1040 / 3679
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #723 / 3960
Number of attempts: 5