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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1611 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 102
  • Position: #345 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #78 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 7
hello-world-vimgolf - 2531 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #436 / 725
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: #402 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1580 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #548 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1788 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 7
SQL to YAML - 58 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

  • Best score: 71
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #17 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #93 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 6
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #101 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #486 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 6
Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #66 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #105 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #48 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 14
Letter case trickery - 1663 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: 13
  • Position: #391 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 15
  • Position: #415 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #270 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13512 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1262 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1087 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 4
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