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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #900 / 1909
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #311 / 766
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #835 / 1662
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 708
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #323 / 1277
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #193 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 315 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 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Roman numerals - 94 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #471 / 1143
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #144 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 256 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 117
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 - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #50 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 148 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 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 266 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 105
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1184 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #86 / 305
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2040 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: #304 / 590
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? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #110 / 444
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 105
Number of attempts: 8

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 256
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #478 / 3711
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #77 / 709
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #469 / 3983
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1039 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 / 306
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #78 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #142 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 539 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #95 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 476 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #109 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 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: #211 / 454
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #72 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #158 / 774
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #224 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #238 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 704 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #67 / 200
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1287 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: #169 / 415
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 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 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 539
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #123 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1764 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #146 / 647
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1710 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: #100 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #384 / 850
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #114 / 1871
Number of attempts: 6