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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #890 / 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: 17
Position: #549 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #790 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1536 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #609 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #185 / 343
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: 25
Position: #21 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #151 / 440
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #92 / 284
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #80 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #173 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 124 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #11 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Refactoring useless Method away - 91 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 52
Position: #9 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

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: #120 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

increment by column in XML - 146 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #30 / 53
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: 12
Position: #37 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2042 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #22 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #515 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #148 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 169 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #12 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #141 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #103 / 293
Number of attempts: 3

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: 12
Position: #140 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 710 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: 35
Position: #150 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #270 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #38 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #183 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 339 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #67 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #534 / 3667
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #317 / 692
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #827 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1365 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #179 / 302
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #175 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #203 / 439
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: 25
Position: #342 / 738
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #262 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #822 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #277 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #59 / 331
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #129 / 639
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #447 / 737
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: 14
Position: #1287 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 38
Position: #611 / 1616
Number of attempts: 4