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Find fix point of cos - 1426 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: #86 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 4
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 474 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #104 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 567 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #56 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #50 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 11
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 414 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #16 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 10
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 743 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: 53
  • Position: #36 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 8
HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #78 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat symbols in list - 1633 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #42 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 13
Fizzbuzz - 586 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #27 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 12
Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #93 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 7
Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 154
  • Position: #92 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #234 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 5
delete swap - 1801 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #247 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 1089 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #38 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 24
Innocent Monster - 217 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 84
  • Position: #26 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 4
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #176 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 6
hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #270 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 4
Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #22 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #259 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #135 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 7
Braces or Brackets? - 1073 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #145 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #338 / 814
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #107 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2881 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7228 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #486 / 1777
  • Number of attempts: 13
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