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Played Challenges

Quicksort - 534 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: #26 / 144
  • 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: 12
  • Position: #32 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #46 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 2
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 393 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #152 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #75 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #53 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 6
Learn to ask for :help - 487 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #21 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 34
  • Position: #55 / 317
  • Number of attempts: 8
Transpose a python matrix - 784 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #50 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 3
Migrated to Postgres! - 288 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #63 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count to 100 in word form - 75 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

  • Best score: 53
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #1 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 7
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 319 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #24 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 5
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 295 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #166 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1282 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #66 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 3
Staircase - 133 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #8 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 12
O Christmas Tree - 108 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #5 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 6
Going underground.... - 327 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #6 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 12
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10602 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1600 / 3658
  • Number of attempts: 2
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