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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #118 / 135
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #827 / 1904
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #584 / 760
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1301 / 1643
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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: #313 / 387
Number of attempts: 5

Create Leading Zeros - 253 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #61 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #187 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #749 / 1140
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 - 180 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 / 138
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 - 2025 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 / 587
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #97 / 439
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #189 / 254
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.... - 357 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: #115 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #2986 / 3703
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #396 / 520
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #840 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2629 / 3979
Number of attempts: 4

Pairs of numbers - 364 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: #127 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #137 / 234
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 - 649 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 38
Position: #187 / 205
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #177 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #156 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 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: #366 / 450
Number of attempts: 5

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #120 / 199
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #401 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #729 / 771
Number of attempts: 4

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #158 / 232
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #542 / 783
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #487 / 676
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #381 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 732 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: #227 / 278
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #833 / 1756
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #232 / 364
Number of attempts: 3

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 71
Position: #187 / 195
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #598 / 654
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1361 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: #293 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #573 / 657
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: #361 / 413
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2062 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: #425 / 525
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1070 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 / 673
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #365 / 538
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #307 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #450 / 639
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #431 / 601
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #361 / 445
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 56
Position: #813 / 841
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13416 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2702 / 3845
Number of attempts: 6