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Played Challenges

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 336 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: #37 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 164 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #10 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 269 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #54 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 2
formatted text to markdown - 180 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

  • Best score: 70
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #5 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 135 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #19 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 3
imports alignment (python) - 639 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #113 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 5
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 374 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #9 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1827 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #164 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 764 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #76 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 6
Compile C - 310 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #101 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11594 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #793 / 3403
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5975 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #177 / 1476
  • Number of attempts: 6
Mikael Gustavsson
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