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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #119 / 136
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #829 / 1910
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #590 / 767
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1320 / 1667
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 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: #314 / 390
Number of attempts: 5

Create Leading Zeros - 269 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #62 / 86
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #169 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #187 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #751 / 1143
Number of attempts: 7

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #89 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Change name of a variable - 182 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 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #109 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #296 / 591
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #97 / 445
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #190 / 256
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffle puzzle - 361 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: #105 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 376 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: #116 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #2991 / 3711
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1663 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: #398 / 522
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #842 / 1091
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2633 / 3986
Number of attempts: 4

Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #128 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #137 / 235
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 531 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 44
Position: #154 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 38
Position: #188 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #177 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #157 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #369 / 456
Number of attempts: 5

Stairs Indenting - 483 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #121 / 200
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #405 / 456
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #734 / 776
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 - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #543 / 786
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #489 / 679
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #383 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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: #228 / 279
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #835 / 1759
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #232 / 365
Number of attempts: 3

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1023 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 71
Position: #189 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #600 / 656
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1362 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 / 339
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #574 / 658
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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: #363 / 416
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2090 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: #426 / 529
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1077 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 / 676
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #365 / 539
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #307 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #454 / 648
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #435 / 610
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1722 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: #364 / 453
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3985 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 56
Position: #823 / 852
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2718 / 3879
Number of attempts: 6