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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2002 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #289 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 2
EDN reformat - 1158 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #108 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 6
Find fix point of cos - 1408 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: #122 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 3
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #91 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #57 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 7
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 85
  • Position: #288 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #339 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fizzbuzz - 575 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #79 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
Poorly indented Python comments - 1316 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #136 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #211 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #79 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #88 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #9 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 6
Plotting some variables in python - 1661 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: 55
  • Position: #234 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #105 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #32 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 6
Lowercase first characters - 487 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: 42
  • Position: #103 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 2
Migrated to Postgres! - 331 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #5 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 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: 89
  • Position: #62 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1802 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #193 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #105 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 5
CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 103
  • Position: #76 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

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

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #64 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 2
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #46 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 5
Staircase - 149 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #31 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 1
snowflake fractal - 51 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 180
  • Position: #18 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #601 / 804
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #163 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12994 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1910 / 3738
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #1408 / 1755
  • Number of attempts: 1
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