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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 586 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: 6
  • Position: #30 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 5
EDN reformat - 413 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #29 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 12
Remove line numbers - 278 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #34 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #139 / 236
  • 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: 14
  • Position: #52 / 408
  • Number of attempts: 10
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 564 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #46 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 5
Many duplicates - 1123 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #224 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 1973 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #196 / 475
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 905 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #36 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 10
hello-world-vimgolf - 2195 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #269 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 792 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #98 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fill in the chess board - 843 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #144 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Plotting some variables in python - 1505 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: 35
  • Position: #79 / 317
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1683 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #268 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 2
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 319 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #74 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #761 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #111 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15894 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2369 / 4153
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1167 / 3939
  • Number of attempts: 4
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