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: 15
- Position: #8 / 63
- Number of attempts: 7
vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #29 / 131
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #185 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #116 / 744
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #381 / 1585
- 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: #210 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #731 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #213 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #20 / 440
- Number of attempts: 7
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #4 / 284
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 9
- Position: #67 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 24
- Position: #27 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 411 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #87 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #137 / 4161
- 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: #70 / 158
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #83 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #71 / 351
- Number of attempts: 4
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #70 / 268
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 11
- Position: #41 / 578
- Number of attempts: 7
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #135 / 247
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #675 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 10
- Position: #127 / 511
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #189 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 6
Number an outline - 249 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #39 / 75
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2205 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #22 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
A simple change - 442 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #26 / 189
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 26
- Position: #195 / 473
- Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #533 / 738
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #84 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #349 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #248 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #172 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #304 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #202 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #352 / 736
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 13
- Position: #339 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3