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Played Challenges

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 450 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: #63 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove line numbers - 747 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #87 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 6
Find fix point of cos - 1432 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: #158 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #266 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 66
  • Position: #130 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 3
HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #271 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #164 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fizzbuzz - 586 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #49 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 3
Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #31 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 6
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 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: #89 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1809 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #415 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1277 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #228 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2606 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #285 / 607
  • Number of attempts: 3
Visual block training - 1089 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #92 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 4
Java to JavaScript - 285 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #45 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #497 / 713
  • Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1829 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #158 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 3
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