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Played Challenges

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: #316 / 766
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #406 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

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: 43
Position: #178 / 390
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 820 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #122 / 251
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1457 / 4216
Number of attempts: 5

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #43 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 94 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 49
Position: #23 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #504 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #189 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

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: #81 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #31 / 159
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: 15
Position: #397 / 590
Number of attempts: 3

Piphilology - 174 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 28
Best player score: 38
Position: #41 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 37
Position: #221 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #426 / 709
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2177 / 3983
Number of attempts: 2

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: 37
Position: #75 / 138
Number of attempts: 2

Assign list - 202 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 61
Position: #59 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 52
Position: #166 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 81
Position: #29 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

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: #146 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 274 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: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #66 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 39
Position: #29 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 476 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #110 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 438 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #182 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #337 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 38
Position: #122 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #270 / 454
Number of attempts: 5

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 364 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #30 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #274 / 678
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1164 / 1758
Number of attempts: 1

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 550 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #69 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #56 / 206
Number of attempts: 7

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 54
Position: #59 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #450 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 320 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #69 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #193 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #90 / 243
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat a C golf submission - 631 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 33
Position: #126 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 35
Position: #386 / 1871
Number of attempts: 5