Played Challenges
Wget failed to download redirections - 184 entries
Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #28 / 63
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #980 / 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: #311 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #377 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #310 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #131 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #513 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 9
Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #15 / 55
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #142 / 440
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 33 entries
For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #12 / 13
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 325 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #6 / 104
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #160 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Winning streak - 124 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #14 / 49
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 219 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #56 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactoring useless Method away - 91 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #25 / 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 162 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #28 / 52
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 788 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: 16
- Position: #180 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
increment by column in XML - 146 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #26 / 53
- Number of attempts: 3
Pretty format for variable declarations - 155 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #30 / 62
- Number of attempts: 4
Happy TvvO - 411 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #62 / 202
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1500 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 3
Shift down - 193 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #23 / 67
- Number of attempts: 5
learn vim in short time - 232 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #67 / 158
- 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: 23
- Position: #66 / 107
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #525 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #70 / 351
- Number of attempts: 4
Lisp Condense - 438 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #37 / 154
- Number of attempts: 5
120 Degrees - 468 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #70 / 143
- Number of attempts: 5
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #64 / 268
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor static member invocation - 198 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #24 / 63
- 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: #87 / 293
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 12
- Position: #178 / 578
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #66 / 205
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #137 / 431
- Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #85 / 247
- Number of attempts: 7
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #40 / 101
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1963 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #197 / 692
- Number of attempts: 16
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #393 / 511
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #183 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2189 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #214 / 439
- Number of attempts: 6
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #102 / 473
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #149 / 738
- Number of attempts: 10
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #173 / 768
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #267 / 652
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #846 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #65 / 640
- Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #98 / 639
- Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #97 / 736
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1366 / 3581
- 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: #115 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 13