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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: #820 / 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: 14
Position: #274 / 744
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1072 / 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: #1525 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 49
Position: #66 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #38 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #142 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Square numbers - 99 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #23 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1431 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #42 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #80 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #17 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #82 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

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: #24 / 132
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: #104 / 154
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #147 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #38 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #273 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

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: 30
Position: #79 / 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: #234 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #71 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #154 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1634 / 3667
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #408 / 692
Number of attempts: 1

Ninjas Leaderboard - 85 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #36 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

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: #754 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1269 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

Groups magic - 153 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: 14
Position: #49 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

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: 11
Position: #129 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #230 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

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: #434 / 738
Number of attempts: 1

Make the circuit grid! - 87 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 48
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #129 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #773 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #265 / 640
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #296 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #423 / 512
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: #1143 / 3581
Number of attempts: 5