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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: #24 / 155
Number of attempts: 6

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: #24 / 77
Number of attempts: 5

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 165 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 58
Best player score: 105
Position: #16 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 183 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #18 / 41
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 252 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #5 / 67
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #42 / 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: #123 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

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: 49
Position: #48 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

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: #127 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 249 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 57
Best player score: 206
Position: #44 / 79
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: #66 / 408
Number of attempts: 5

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 316 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: 12
Best player score: 27
Position: #23 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

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: 54
Position: #36 / 150
Number of attempts: 3

HS exam question - 1345 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 58
Position: #94 / 365
Number of attempts: 3

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: 24
Position: #47 / 294
Number of attempts: 11

Fizzbuzz - 466 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 47
Best player score: 66
Position: #44 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 509 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #45 / 99
Number of attempts: 3

Changing around text with citations - 275 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 47
Position: #64 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1079 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #38 / 190
Number of attempts: 14

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 546 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 44
Position: #65 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1379 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #274 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1090 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 29
Position: #51 / 232
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 1973 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #104 / 475
Number of attempts: 6

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1466 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #361 / 494
Number of attempts: 2

Java to JavaScript - 253 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #10 / 65
Number of attempts: 6

Wikitext headings to markdown - 905 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #41 / 189
Number of attempts: 5

hello-world-vimgolf - 2195 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #286 / 625
Number of attempts: 3

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 792 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #100 / 243
Number of attempts: 4

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 218 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #19 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

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: 19
Position: #29 / 169
Number of attempts: 8

Lowercase first characters - 450 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: 39
Position: #85 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1396 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #74 / 310
Number of attempts: 3

Inverting Lines - 1683 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #269 / 458
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to MD format - 362 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #12 / 84
Number of attempts: 10

Word frequency alignment - 273 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #121 / 156
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3206 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #146 / 710
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #692 / 3530
Number of attempts: 3