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Played Challenges

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: 15
Position: #110 / 365
Number of attempts: 8

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: 34
Position: #12 / 105
Number of attempts: 14

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: #27 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 358 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 190
Position: #51 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #144 / 523
Number of attempts: 12

HS exam question - 1523 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 108
Position: #340 / 404
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1507 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #200 / 334
Number of attempts: 10

Fizzbuzz - 539 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 105
Position: #136 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 582 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 110
Number of attempts: 16

Changing around text with citations - 324 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 90
Number of attempts: 7

Poorly indented Python comments - 1275 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 213
Number of attempts: 16

Many duplicates - 1350 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #11 / 440
Number of attempts: 4

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: 37
Position: #17 / 148
Number of attempts: 10

delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 514
Number of attempts: 1

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: 51
Position: #183 / 260
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #94 / 569
Number of attempts: 8

Visual block training - 1047 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 195
Number of attempts: 26

Innocent Monster - 165 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

Best score: 60
Best player score: 68
Position: #17 / 48
Number of attempts: 5

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: #59 / 551
Number of attempts: 4

Java to JavaScript - 267 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 64
Position: #17 / 72
Number of attempts: 9

Wikitext headings to markdown - 985 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 207
Number of attempts: 14

hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #110 / 699
Number of attempts: 3

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #98 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 265 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 64
Number of attempts: 10

Fill in the chess board - 933 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #24 / 180
Number of attempts: 20

Learn to ask for :help - 572 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 47
Position: #115 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #2 / 345
Number of attempts: 7

Transpose a python matrix - 848 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 135
Number of attempts: 11

Create a diamond comment - 336 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #19 / 74
Number of attempts: 10

Lowercase first characters - 484 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #5 / 181
Number of attempts: 12

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 96 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 104
Position: #18 / 38
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: 29
Position: #61 / 126
Number of attempts: 3

Increment number for every 10 lines - 229 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 44
Position: #32 / 63
Number of attempts: 9

simple replacements - 1710 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #24 / 378
Number of attempts: 11

Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #86 / 505
Number of attempts: 7

CSV to MD format - 404 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #30 / 93
Number of attempts: 14

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 315 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #12 / 97
Number of attempts: 17

Python dataclasses - 1121 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #27 / 281
Number of attempts: 8

Count to 100 in word form - 121 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 78
Position: #19 / 28
Number of attempts: 5

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 105
Position: #27 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #40 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #93 / 316
Number of attempts: 6

Put a cross in the square - 210 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #77 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2023 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #265 / 373
Number of attempts: 3

HS Final exam vimgolf - 892 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #139 / 234
Number of attempts: 8