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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #897 / 1903
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #306 / 759
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #826 / 1638
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 704
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #321 / 1274
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #193 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 307 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: #14 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Roman numerals - 81 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #469 / 1140
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #142 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

120 Degrees - 505 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #70 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #49 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 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 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 257 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #85 / 301
Number of attempts: 4

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: #302 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 719 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: #63 / 210
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #110 / 438
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 371 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 104
Number of attempts: 8

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 254
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #478 / 3700
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #77 / 706
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #466 / 3977
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: #71 / 305
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 - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #95 / 197
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 - 1620 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 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #72 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #155 / 767
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #224 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #238 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #67 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: #168 / 412
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 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 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1386 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 537
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #122 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1711 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #146 / 629
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 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: #98 / 440
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3864 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #372 / 830
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #111 / 1825
Number of attempts: 6