Played Challenges
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 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: #41 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 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 / 77
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #61 / 148
- Number of attempts: 2
formatted text to markdown - 184 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: #6 / 67
- Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #20 / 69
- Number of attempts: 3
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #117 / 198
- Number of attempts: 5
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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 / 166
- Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1931 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #183 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #82 / 220
- Number of attempts: 6
Compile C - 430 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #118 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #862 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #185 / 1706
- Number of attempts: 6
Mikael Gustavsson
Twitter: @slvmnd
Software developer based in China, CTO at gobreaktheice.com.