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HS exam question - 924 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #14 / 253
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat symbols in list - 815 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #5 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 12
Fizzbuzz - 273 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #8 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 7
Substraction (bis) - 311 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #8 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 12
Many duplicates - 729 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #10 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 6
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 384 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #11 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 10
delete swap - 873 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #89 / 288
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 880 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #58 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 1525 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #193 / 377
  • Number of attempts: 3
Visual block training - 693 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #79 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1239 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 6
Java to JavaScript - 210 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 121
  • Position: #49 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 772 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #129 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 1863 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #204 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 7
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 720 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #39 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 5
Plotting some variables in python - 1329 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #41 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 15
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