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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1584 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #742 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4956 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1361 / 1616
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11418 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #3890 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5644 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #1250 / 1262
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #26 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #411 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #182 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 426 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #85 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15956 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #4042 / 4171
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #157 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #1095 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 2
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #73 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #200 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two become one - 713 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: 42
  • Position: #190 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #423 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3577 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: 30
  • Position: #1054 / 1075
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3647 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2048 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: 37
  • Position: #443 / 478
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #705 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #480 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1506 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #526 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6836 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #1393 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 3
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