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Played Challenges

Morse - 178 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 90
  • Position: #26 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 5
New teacher - 1453 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #209 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quicksort - 2077 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: 33
  • Position: #384 / 462
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 652 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #90 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 4
Find fix point of cos - 1458 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: #235 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 2
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 500 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #52 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 575 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #207 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2661 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #236 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat symbols in list - 1648 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #329 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #295 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #341 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 5
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1678 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #408 / 563
  • Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #163 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2522 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #559 / 721
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #644 / 760
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5032 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1086 / 1639
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10714 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2521 / 3701
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #640 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #159 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 787 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #190 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1732 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #459 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1683 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #286 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3904 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #759 / 835
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13324 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2016 / 3824
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7463 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #1513 / 1836
  • Number of attempts: 4
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