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Played Challenges

CSV to MD format - 298 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 81
Position: #38 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #67 / 1241
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4639 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #159 / 1856
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #15 / 728
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #288 / 1541
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #104 / 683
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11136 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #24 / 4112
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5430 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #412 / 1227
Number of attempts: 9

Add to end of each line... kinda - 289 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #66 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7520 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #604 / 2043
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #50 / 410
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #48 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #151 / 1166
Number of attempts: 8

swap or reverse - 104 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 306 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #104 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 433
Number of attempts: 5

Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #29 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting database text output - 206 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 79
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 752 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: 12
Position: #38 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15728 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #25 / 4114
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 1112
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 957 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #23 / 340
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #10 / 291
Number of attempts: 6

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: 11
Position: #57 / 571
Number of attempts: 6

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: #49 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #241 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Piphilology - 124 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

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

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #110 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 315 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: 28
Position: #35 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 3637
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #191 / 685
Number of attempts: 11

Letter case trickery - 1547 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: 10
Position: #85 / 498
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3026 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: 14
Position: #112 / 1044
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #264 / 3919
Number of attempts: 7

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: #51 / 297
Number of attempts: 6

fib.c cleanup - 58 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1961 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #88 / 466
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 716
Number of attempts: 7

Switch function arguments - 1982 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #244 / 627
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4917 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #778 / 1701
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1154 / 3410
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6004 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #87 / 1480
Number of attempts: 8

Strabs
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