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Played Challenges

Lower cased and dashed strings - 41 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 60
Best player score: 93
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 855 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1059 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 47
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 505 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Number of attempts: 1

simple format - 1749 entries

make it look better.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 39
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 653 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: 34
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1208 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 389 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 22736 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 2
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 6

remove all lines in first part - 141 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 5620 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 2
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1719 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 11390 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 451 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 686 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Counting in binary - 364 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 854 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 479 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 8769 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 10644 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 6

Mess in revision history - 936 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 7

Vim's not included features - 150 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4189 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 3
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 6

Change name of a variable - 143 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

quotes inside quotes - 2684 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: 2
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 1795 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9280 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 3303 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1416 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
Number of attempts: 9

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 935 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 10129 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 6

I forgot quotes - 10856 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 1747 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 2847 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1333 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1716 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 3