Played Challenges
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 42 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
7th Birthday - 180 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15604 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2456 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Refactor static member invocation - 187 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 244 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3076 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 227 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 389 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4585 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 153 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1903 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 205 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1079 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 302 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 60 entries
We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 164
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2175 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Piphilology - 123 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: 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1117 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 347 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 54
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10506 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 7
O Christmas Tree - 99 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 303 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: 58
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3346 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1515 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: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 478 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12671 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4859 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Replacing some words - 405 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1260 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: 26
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort the cardinal numbers - 236 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1773 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Java Array2List - 216 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 118
- Number of attempts: 3
imports alignment (python) - 586 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
expand a list comprehension (python) - 267 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 69
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 759 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 62
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 367 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
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 722 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 211 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4