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Played Challenges

New teacher - 619 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #53 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 2
months to html list items - 826 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #98 / 222
  • 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: 30
  • Position: #301 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 525 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #96 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
  • Position: #281 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 442 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #74 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #202 / 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: 34
  • Position: #409 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 652 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: 60
  • Position: #84 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS exam question - 1523 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #205 / 404
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1650 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #329 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #400 / 551
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #319 / 699
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 880 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #204 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 572 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #112 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #69 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
simple replacements - 1710 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #155 / 378
  • Number of attempts: 9
Inverting Lines - 1870 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #303 / 505
  • Number of attempts: 5
Modernise code - 1368 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #104 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4427 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #714 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2360 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #320 / 465
  • 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: 24
  • Position: #3107 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2308 / 3852
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #387 / 633
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #499 / 1151
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2869 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #531 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #389 / 748
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #157 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #518 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #421 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #352 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 1
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