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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33966 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #2944 / 7501
Number of attempts: 1

Wget failed to download redirections - 226 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: 20
Position: #41 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5103 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1222 / 1663
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11574 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1738 / 4241
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #646 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 675 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #210 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 208 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #32 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #47 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #117 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

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: #138 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #790 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #215 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #98 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

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: #402 / 590
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #347 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle puzzle - 360 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: 15
Position: #65 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1663 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: 12
Position: #342 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 16
Position: #613 / 1089
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2222 / 3984
Number of attempts: 1

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: 31
Position: #49 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 539 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #120 / 198
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: #219 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #479 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #638 / 785
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #410 / 678
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #340 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1171 / 1758
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #247 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #403 / 656
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: 33
Position: #88 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #341 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #27 / 463
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 819 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #110 / 276
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: #152 / 647
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13517 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1450 / 3876
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: #390 / 1871
Number of attempts: 1

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