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Played Challenges

Find anomalies - 161 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #32 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 2
Coordinate extraction - 55 entries

Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 106
  • Position: #16 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1376 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #253 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 1
Truth Table to ModelSim - 58 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

  • Best score: 64
  • Best player score: 222
  • Position: #17 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 33
  • Position: #375 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 50
  • Position: #158 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 48
  • Position: #388 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
  • Position: #314 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #91 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #428 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1809 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #516 / 564
  • 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: 64
  • Position: #240 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1089 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 166
  • Position: #202 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #527 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #693 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 716 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #186 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #251 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #65 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 502 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #205 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1662 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #543 / 613
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #768 / 816
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13143 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3441 / 3777
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7259 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #1669 / 1791
  • Number of attempts: 1
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