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HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #141 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1621 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #225 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #9 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #179 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #183 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 4
Visual block training - 1070 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #63 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 6
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1658 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #122 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 3
Java to JavaScript - 269 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 100
  • Position: #56 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #388 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #34 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #47 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 11
Plotting some variables in python - 1661 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: 39
  • Position: #114 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 5
Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #58 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 8
Lowercase first characters - 487 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #115 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 3
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