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Played Challenges

Find fix point of cos - 816 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: #55 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 3
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 369 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: #9 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 16
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 395 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 1889 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #113 / 408
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat symbols in list - 1321 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #83 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 7
Substraction (bis) - 509 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #27 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 16
delete swap - 1379 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #234 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 295 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #154 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4319 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #193 / 1059
  • Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2120 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #147 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 6
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 738 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #68 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 8
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 664 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #287 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #269 / 1251
  • Number of attempts: 5
Align commas - 1049 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #95 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 1
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