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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #9 / 7364
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1525 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #503 / 744
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #294 / 695
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1520 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 50
Position: #194 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #966 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

JSON string rotation - 55 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #17 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 2101
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #210 / 443
Number of attempts: 3

Assign numbers to fields - 105 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #30 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #8 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #205 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #153 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Land of the Lost - 77 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #9 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #91 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 158 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #40 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 81 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 44
Position: #18 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 996 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #266 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 788 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: #114 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 411 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #155 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1429 / 4161
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #26 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 275 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 39
Position: #100 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #489 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #288 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #96 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #112 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #112 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #136 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 198 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #31 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #165 / 293
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 16
Position: #460 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #133 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #630 / 692
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 11
Position: #259 / 511
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1394 / 3946
Number of attempts: 5

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 188
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #460 / 738
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #326 / 403
Number of attempts: 1