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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #886 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #298 / 744
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #793 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 695
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #311 / 1258
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #193 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 275 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: #12 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Roman numerals - 68 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #464 / 1129
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #140 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #67 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #48 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 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: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #15 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 230 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #84 / 293
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #298 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 710 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: #62 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #110 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 101
Number of attempts: 8

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 247
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #478 / 3667
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #77 / 692
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #455 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #70 / 302
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #77 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #142 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #92 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 442 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #106 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #207 / 439
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #72 / 441
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #148 / 738
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #217 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #238 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #65 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #161 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #114 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #146 / 558
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 20
Position: #89 / 384
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #328 / 737
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #108 / 1616
Number of attempts: 6