Played Challenges
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: 20
- Position: #91 / 105
- Number of attempts: 4
Word frequency alignment - 276 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #82 / 158
- Number of attempts: 2
Enumerate words - 250 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #89 / 89
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #174 / 188
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #236 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #346 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #178 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #377 / 401
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #182 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #383 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #425 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6563 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #1493 / 1617
- Number of attempts: 1
CHIP CASTLE
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