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Played Challenges

Find fix point of cos - 1121 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: #103 / 336
Number of attempts: 8

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 425 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: #11 / 99
Number of attempts: 14

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 485 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 344 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 190
Position: #49 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2243 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #136 / 487
Number of attempts: 12

HS exam question - 1503 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 108
Position: #334 / 395
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1466 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #193 / 322
Number of attempts: 10

Fizzbuzz - 509 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 47
Best player score: 105
Position: #133 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 578 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #12 / 107
Number of attempts: 16

Changing around text with citations - 322 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 88
Number of attempts: 7

Poorly indented Python comments - 1160 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 202
Number of attempts: 16

Many duplicates - 1252 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #11 / 411
Number of attempts: 4

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 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 / 145
Number of attempts: 10

delete swap - 1522 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 476
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1175 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: #175 / 246
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the shell script! - 2338 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #92 / 540
Number of attempts: 8

Visual block training - 1001 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 183
Number of attempts: 26

Innocent Monster - 164 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

Best score: 60
Best player score: 68
Position: #16 / 47
Number of attempts: 5

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1577 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #54 / 524
Number of attempts: 4

Java to JavaScript - 257 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 64
Position: #16 / 67
Number of attempts: 9

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 203
Number of attempts: 14

hello-world-vimgolf - 2352 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #110 / 664
Number of attempts: 3

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 839 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #94 / 256
Number of attempts: 4

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 261 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 61
Number of attempts: 10

Fill in the chess board - 905 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 / 175
Number of attempts: 20

Learn to ask for :help - 531 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 47
Position: #108 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1558 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 / 333
Number of attempts: 7

Transpose a python matrix - 837 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 133
Number of attempts: 11

Create a diamond comment - 305 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #16 / 71
Number of attempts: 10

Lowercase first characters - 467 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 / 175
Number of attempts: 12

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 90 entries

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

Best score: 74
Best player score: 104
Position: #16 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Migrated to Postgres! - 311 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #58 / 121
Number of attempts: 3

Increment number for every 10 lines - 219 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: #30 / 61
Number of attempts: 9

simple replacements - 1658 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #24 / 370
Number of attempts: 11

Inverting Lines - 1832 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #86 / 497
Number of attempts: 7

CSV to MD format - 388 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #28 / 91
Number of attempts: 14

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 307 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #12 / 94
Number of attempts: 17

Python dataclasses - 1104 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #27 / 277
Number of attempts: 8

Count to 100 in word form - 106 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: #17 / 26
Number of attempts: 5

RUST match with enum for Coin - 176 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 105
Position: #25 / 50
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 305 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #40 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1333 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #89 / 307
Number of attempts: 6

Put a cross in the square - 203 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #75 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #264 / 370
Number of attempts: 3

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 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: #133 / 227
Number of attempts: 8