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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1510 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 60
Position: #112 / 397
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 3842
Number of attempts: 7

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #59 / 3044
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #284 / 630
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #480 / 1865
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #86 / 700
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 695
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #14 / 4164
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #51 / 161
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 124 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #39 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 162 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 42
Position: #46 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 788 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: #107 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #7 / 4161
Number of attempts: 3

Shift down - 193 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #39 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #96 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #4 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Winding path - 93 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: #27 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #161 / 578
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 710 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: #83 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #87 / 3666
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #507 / 692
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: #82 / 511
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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 / 1072
Number of attempts: 5

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 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: #44 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #245 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 442 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #78 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #163 / 439
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: #302 / 473
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #252 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #313 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2121 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

Marcin Radomski
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