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HS exam question - 1508 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 97
  • Position: #310 / 396
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat symbols in list - 1470 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #234 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fizzbuzz - 509 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #75 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 4
Substraction (bis) - 578 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #87 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 4
Poorly indented Python comments - 1173 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #143 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1253 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #144 / 412
  • 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: 115
  • Position: #135 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1525 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #117 / 478
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 38
  • Position: #92 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix the shell script! - 2339 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #303 / 541
  • Number of attempts: 6
Visual block training - 1001 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #139 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1578 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #354 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #173 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2359 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #382 / 666
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 839 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #185 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 86
  • Position: #152 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 541 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #86 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 5
Transpose a python matrix - 845 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 125
  • Position: #129 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 63
  • Position: #166 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #740 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #3467 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #1550 / 1615
  • Number of attempts: 2
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