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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #901 / 1914
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #313 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #843 / 1674
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 711
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #325 / 1280
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #193 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 327 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 112
Number of attempts: 3

Roman numerals - 106 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #473 / 1146
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #147 / 361
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 264 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 120
Number of attempts: 3

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #71 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #50 / 276
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 162 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #16 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 271 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #86 / 309
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2067 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: #308 / 595
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 736 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: #64 / 212
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #110 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 390 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 108
Number of attempts: 8

Mess in revision history - 1235 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 259
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #478 / 3716
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #77 / 710
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #471 / 3991
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1040 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #72 / 307
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 539 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #79 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 308 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #142 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #96 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 484 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #111 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #213 / 457
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #72 / 459
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #159 / 778
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #225 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #238 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 721 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #68 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: 13
Position: #171 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #49 / 241
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #193 / 543
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 657 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #125 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #146 / 655
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: 20
Position: #105 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #393 / 862
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #119 / 1889
Number of attempts: 6