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Played Challenges

New teacher - 619 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 135
Number of attempts: 8

months to html list items - 826 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #129 / 222
Number of attempts: 2

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 379 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: #76 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Remove line numbers - 654 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 53
Position: #159 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1204 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: #338 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 442 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 / 105
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 507 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #193 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #326 / 523
Number of attempts: 2

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 379 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: #111 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 652 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: #156 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

HS exam question - 1523 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 106
Position: #337 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Fizzbuzz - 539 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 272
Position: #155 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1350 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #280 / 440
Number of attempts: 5

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 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: #125 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #321 / 514
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1231 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: #246 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #302 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

Visual block training - 1047 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 54
Position: #146 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #203 / 551
Number of attempts: 7

Wikitext headings to markdown - 985 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 71
Position: #191 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #569 / 699
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 268
Number of attempts: 6

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 265 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 96
Position: #46 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Learn to ask for :help - 572 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #86 / 128
Number of attempts: 5

Plotting some variables in python - 1605 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: #219 / 345
Number of attempts: 2

Migrated to Postgres! - 324 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 - 33483 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: #3400 / 7384
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 1259
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #2852 / 3852
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #677 / 702
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2869 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 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #772 / 4174
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #231 / 2114
Number of attempts: 6

Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #175 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #3861 / 4166
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1040 / 3677
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #720 / 3950
Number of attempts: 5