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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 472 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #117 / 134
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #819 / 1891
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #577 / 751
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1277 / 1615
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 46
Position: #306 / 379
Number of attempts: 5

Create Leading Zeros - 239 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #60 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #166 / 253
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 555 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #187 / 345
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #747 / 1137
Number of attempts: 7

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #87 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

Change name of a variable - 179 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
Position: #45 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #108 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2014 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 / 582
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #97 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #187 / 249
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffle puzzle - 346 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: 27
Position: #103 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 350 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: 41
Position: #113 / 127
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #2964 / 3678
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1619 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: 13
Position: #393 / 515
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: 17
Position: #836 / 1075
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2614 / 3957
Number of attempts: 4

Pairs of numbers - 362 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: 61
Position: #125 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 408 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #137 / 228
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 44
Position: #153 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 38
Position: #183 / 196
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #177 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 598 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #149 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #365 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #120 / 197
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #396 / 445
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #712 / 751
Number of attempts: 4

Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #156 / 228
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #537 / 774
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #475 / 657
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #374 / 413
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: 17
Position: #222 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #826 / 1743
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 573 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #232 / 361
Number of attempts: 3

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 998 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 71
Position: #182 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #590 / 645
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1347 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: 28
Position: #290 / 334
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1929 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #568 / 651
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: 19
Position: #352 / 403
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1961 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: 20
Position: #413 / 506
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1037 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: #388 / 657
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #356 / 523
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #300 / 342
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #403 / 577
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #396 / 551
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 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: 25
Position: #331 / 403
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 56
Position: #746 / 770
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2572 / 3653
Number of attempts: 6