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Played Challenges

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 156 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: 47
  • Position: #28 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove line numbers - 266 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 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 6
Find fix point of cos - 798 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: #126 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paste a column after a column - 1887 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #195 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 66
  • Position: #109 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 3
HS exam question - 1345 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #233 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 27
  • Position: #140 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fizzbuzz - 464 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #43 / 144
  • 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: 30
  • Position: #27 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 6
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 543 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #79 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1378 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #323 / 432
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 60
  • Position: #196 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 1968 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #230 / 472
  • Number of attempts: 3
Visual block training - 912 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #78 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 4
Java to JavaScript - 253 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #41 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2185 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #433 / 623
  • Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1366 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #133 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 3
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