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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4639 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #872 / 1856
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2215 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #291 / 728
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #766 / 1541
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 683
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5430 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #293 / 1227
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 495 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #193 / 327
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 269 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #11 / 105
Number of attempts: 3

Roman numerals - 67 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #453 / 1112
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 957 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #133 / 340
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 112
Number of attempts: 3

120 Degrees - 441 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #65 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 698 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #47 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 124 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: 30
Position: #15 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 216 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #84 / 291
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1948 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: #293 / 571
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 703 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: 28
Position: #62 / 202
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #110 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 351 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 100
Number of attempts: 8

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 242
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #478 / 3637
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #77 / 685
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #446 / 3919
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 973 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: 16
Position: #69 / 297
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #76 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 260 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #142 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 476 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #88 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 396 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #100 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 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: #201 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1004 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #72 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #143 / 716
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #208 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 521 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #238 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 640 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #63 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 13
Position: #155 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 590 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: 14
Position: #49 / 225
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1194 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 486
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 554 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #110 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1346 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #146 / 520
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1141 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: 20
Position: #89 / 346
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2970 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #288 / 661
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6000 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #108 / 1479
Number of attempts: 6