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Played Challenges

Rearrange array to single level - 1430 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #141 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quicksort - 2005 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #204 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 5
Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 396 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 115
  • Position: #42 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 633 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #74 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1408 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #87 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 4
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #32 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 4
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #51 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 2
Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 125
  • Position: #35 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 5
Paste a column after a column - 2557 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #282 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 4
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #96 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 8
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #56 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #44 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 6
Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #59 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 2
Many duplicates - 1451 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #239 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #260 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #184 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #158 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 5
Visual block training - 1075 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #128 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
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