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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #34 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 239 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #49 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #261 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #148 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #98 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 143 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #19 / 57
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #126 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #101 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #132 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 341 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #88 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #178 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #99 / 143
Number of attempts: 4

Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #40 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 401
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 832 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #135 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1912 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #327 / 500
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1001 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #161 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #90 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #169 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #102 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 497 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #123 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #93 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 96 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #36 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #465 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #206 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 66
Position: #31 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 198 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #55 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #339 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #46 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 52
Position: #160 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #160 / 384
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 49
Position: #199 / 289
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 35
Position: #627 / 737
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 47
Position: #269 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2259 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 47
Position: #1180 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1