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Played Challenges

Create json from a .env file - 811 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 43
Position: #37 / 183
Number of attempts: 6

Reordering properties - 837 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 59
Position: #68 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

YAML to dotenv - 1017 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 219
Number of attempts: 9

Reorganize Pokémon - 625 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 170
Number of attempts: 6

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 636 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #41 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #162 / 295
Number of attempts: 2

Quicksort - 2038 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: 7
Position: #155 / 452
Number of attempts: 7

EDN reformat - 1175 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #106 / 167
Number of attempts: 5

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 450 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #40 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #79 / 164
Number of attempts: 3

Find fix point of cos - 1432 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: #207 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 474 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #40 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 570 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #186 / 319
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #89 / 566
Number of attempts: 9

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 417 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #39 / 120
Number of attempts: 5

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 743 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: 60
Position: #89 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 81
Position: #276 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #168 / 352
Number of attempts: 3

Fizzbuzz - 586 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 44
Best player score: 105
Position: #142 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #63 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 41
Position: #61 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #46 / 223
Number of attempts: 12

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #392 / 476
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #98 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1814 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #316 / 565
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1277 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 40
Position: #111 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #48 / 210
Number of attempts: 7

Plotting some variables in python - 1671 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: 37
Position: #104 / 349
Number of attempts: 8

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #4084 / 7455
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #297 / 641
Number of attempts: 3

Add to end of each line... kinda - 338 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #108 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #859 / 2144
Number of attempts: 4

Maze path - 48 entries

Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 47
Position: #11 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #204 / 510
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #26 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #2625 / 3695
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3182 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #364 / 1085
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #204 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

Sort and add attributes - 1512 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #272 / 585
Number of attempts: 2