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Played Challenges

Truth Table to ModelSim - 44 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

Best score: 64
Best player score: 85
Position: #7 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 489 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 105
Number of attempts: 7

months to html list items - 826 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #23 / 222
Number of attempts: 3

Instance creation in Verilog - 35 entries

Creating an instance of a module is a very frequent task in Verilog. Let's see how efficiently can it be done

Best score: 107
Best player score: 146
Position: #6 / 8
Number of attempts: 3

Quicksort - 1757 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 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Remove line numbers - 654 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: #31 / 173
Number of attempts: 3

Find fix point of cos - 1204 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 / 365
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 507 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #152 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2413 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 / 523
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat symbols in list - 1507 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #53 / 334
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1231 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #59 / 260
Number of attempts: 8

Learn to ask for :help - 572 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #22 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Plotting some variables in python - 1605 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 / 345
Number of attempts: 8

Transpose a python matrix - 848 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #55 / 135
Number of attempts: 3

Migrated to Postgres! - 324 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #66 / 126
Number of attempts: 4

Count to 100 in word form - 121 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 / 28
Number of attempts: 7

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 332 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #24 / 99
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #166 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #66 / 316
Number of attempts: 3

Staircase - 146 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: #10 / 33
Number of attempts: 12

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #390 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2392 / 7384
Number of attempts: 3

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #32 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #73 / 256
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #762 / 3055
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #451 / 1870
Number of attempts: 5

Cool or not? - 802 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #70 / 228
Number of attempts: 5

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 747 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #59 / 177
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #156 / 316
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #143 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Text to HTML Table - 174 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #21 / 51
Number of attempts: 10

For all cases. - 145 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #88 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 143
Number of attempts: 5

Simple addition - 312 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #59 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 73 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #7 / 22
Number of attempts: 5

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #21 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

O Christmas Tree - 109 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 / 43
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 70
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1000 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 287
Number of attempts: 8

Line 'em up! - 396 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #39 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffled numbers - 237 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #40 / 95
Number of attempts: 6

Remove hard line breaks - 68 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #10 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 349 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 / 127
Number of attempts: 12

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1600 / 3677
Number of attempts: 2

Simple Maths 2 - 35 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 32
Position: #12 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 425 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #18 / 106
Number of attempts: 3