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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 178 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #25 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #151 / 1857
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2218 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #303 / 729
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #780 / 1550
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2507 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #47 / 684
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #83 / 4114
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5444 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #328 / 1229
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 561 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #73 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 505 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #208 / 330
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 745 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #166 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 758 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: #21 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #21 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty format for variable declarations - 144 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 392 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #52 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15749 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #72 / 4117
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 191 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 66
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: 23
Position: #64 / 105
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3122 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #66 / 1113
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 962 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #68 / 342
Number of attempts: 3

Suffix sort - 235 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #30 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 432 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #35 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 441 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #67 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 707 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #61 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 193 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #23 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 221 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #66 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #86 / 292
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 1951 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: #172 / 572
Number of attempts: 3

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: #65 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #136 / 422
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #82 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle puzzle - 307 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: 14
Position: #38 / 100
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: #43 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1930 / 3638
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #85 / 685
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1553 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: 11
Position: #259 / 500
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 15
Position: #430 / 1045
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1402 / 3919
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 345 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #40 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinates placeholder - 61 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 75 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 142 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: #57 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 185
Number of attempts: 2

Checkerboard case pattern - 133 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 559 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #41 / 157
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1510 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: #207 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1966 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: #100 / 467
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #260 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the chessboard - 67 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2377 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #221 / 719
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2826 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #170 / 739
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 1985 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #258 / 628
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 958 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #213 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 665 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #175 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 572 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #201 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4945 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #343 / 1708
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 864 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #64 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1905 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #165 / 625
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1290 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: 18
Position: #95 / 325
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1832 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #246 / 627
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 782 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #67 / 211
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1777 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 468
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 937 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #402 / 618
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 773 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #301 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #293 / 378
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 452 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #28 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1354 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #151 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3012 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #86 / 668
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 11662 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1333 / 3419
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6035 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #114 / 1487
Number of attempts: 6