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Played Challenges

Easier Align - 78 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 62
Best player score: 190
Position: #16 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 1097 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #73 / 231
Number of attempts: 12

HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 108
Position: #258 / 306
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1021 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #136 / 233
Number of attempts: 10

Fizzbuzz - 343 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 47
Best player score: 105
Position: #90 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 383 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #10 / 80
Number of attempts: 16

Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 60
Number of attempts: 7

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 168
Number of attempts: 16

Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #11 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 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 / 108
Number of attempts: 10

delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 924 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: #144 / 207
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #80 / 418
Number of attempts: 8

Visual block training - 780 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 146
Number of attempts: 26

Innocent Monster - 131 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

Best score: 60
Best player score: 68
Position: #14 / 40
Number of attempts: 5

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1348 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #48 / 458
Number of attempts: 4

Java to JavaScript - 216 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 64
Position: #13 / 57
Number of attempts: 9

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 172
Number of attempts: 14

hello-world-vimgolf - 1981 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #110 / 564
Number of attempts: 3

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 745 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 212 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 53
Number of attempts: 10

Fill in the chess board - 737 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 / 155
Number of attempts: 20

Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 47
Position: #95 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1396 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 / 295
Number of attempts: 7

Transpose a python matrix - 684 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 117
Number of attempts: 11

Create a diamond comment - 271 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #14 / 66
Number of attempts: 10

Lowercase first characters - 421 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 / 152
Number of attempts: 12

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 81 entries

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

Best score: 75
Best player score: 104
Position: #14 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Migrated to Postgres! - 268 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #57 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Increment number for every 10 lines - 180 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: #28 / 53
Number of attempts: 9

simple replacements - 1264 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #24 / 283
Number of attempts: 11

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #86 / 423
Number of attempts: 7

CSV to MD format - 330 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #26 / 77
Number of attempts: 14

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 292 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #12 / 85
Number of attempts: 17

Python dataclasses - 796 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #27 / 204
Number of attempts: 8

Count to 100 in word form - 54 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: 55
Best player score: 78
Position: #10 / 17
Number of attempts: 5

RUST match with enum for Coin - 168 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 105
Position: #23 / 46
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #40 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #83 / 261
Number of attempts: 6

Put a cross in the square - 175 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #68 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 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: #126 / 215
Number of attempts: 8