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HS exam question - 1613 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 60
Position: #121 / 422
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #408 / 7517
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 3904
Number of attempts: 7

vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #59 / 3098
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #287 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #486 / 1901
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #89 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #14 / 4258
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 712 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #53 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 156 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 603 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #39 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 214 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 42
Position: #52 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 829 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #114 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #7 / 4225
Number of attempts: 3

Shift down - 238 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #39 / 1147
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #101 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 485 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #71 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #4 / 277
Number of attempts: 3

Winding path - 143 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 58
Position: #30 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2070 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #168 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 739 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #86 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #87 / 3717
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #520 / 711
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1688 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #86 / 526
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3202 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #107 / 1093
Number of attempts: 5

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 369 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #47 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #261 / 3991
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 484 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #169 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #312 / 488
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #258 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #376 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2314 / 3907
Number of attempts: 1

Marcin Radomski
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