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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 60
Position: #118 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: 22
Position: #408 / 7420
Number of attempts: 11

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 3864
Number of attempts: 7

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #59 / 3063
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #285 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #482 / 1876
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #88 / 703
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #14 / 4197
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #52 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #39 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 42
Position: #48 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #110 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #7 / 4180
Number of attempts: 3

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #39 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #98 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #69 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #4 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 58
Position: #29 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #165 / 585
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 713 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: 30
Position: #84 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #87 / 3683
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #514 / 702
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #84 / 518
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #107 / 1078
Number of attempts: 5

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: #45 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #249 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #80 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #167 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #307 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #253 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #333 / 588
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #2199 / 3694
Number of attempts: 1

Marcin Radomski
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