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months to html list items - 416 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #77 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 2
Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 325 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: #66 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 465 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #193 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 1
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 357 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: #105 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 608 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: #146 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1469 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 106
  • Position: #326 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1554 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #502 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2311 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #529 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 5
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 828 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #86 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 231 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #42 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn to ask for :help - 510 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #80 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 5
Plotting some variables in python - 1549 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: #209 / 330
  • Number of attempts: 2
Migrated to Postgres! - 299 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #113 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: #3389 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4535 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #122 / 1255
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18615 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #2843 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #675 / 700
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2839 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #439 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #772 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #231 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 6
Order and join - 948 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #172 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3855 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1040 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12850 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #719 / 3944
  • Number of attempts: 5
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