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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 374 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 53
Position: #63 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #192 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #251 / 1624
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 45
Position: #284 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #232 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 255 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 61
Position: #89 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #330 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #497 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #730 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #94 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1974 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #86 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #83 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #141 / 360
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: #192 / 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: 27
Position: #238 / 480
Number of attempts: 3