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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 344 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 53
Position: #62 / 102
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #192 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #251 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 45
Position: #274 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #229 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 221 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #87 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #326 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #490 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #728 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #93 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1963 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #86 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 153 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #82 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 356
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: #188 / 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: 27
Position: #234 / 473
Number of attempts: 3