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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3120 / 3842
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #189 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #213 / 4164
Number of attempts: 6

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 211
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #860 / 1258
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #84 / 418
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 266
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #76 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #674 / 1186
Number of attempts: 4

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #247 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #75 / 86
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 440
Number of attempts: 3

remove all lines in first part - 190 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 40
Position: #272 / 284
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffled numbers - 234 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #8 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #26 / 242
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1534 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #547 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #75 / 351
Number of attempts: 10

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #21 / 143
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #145 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #687 / 3666
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #321 / 692
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #455 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

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: #192 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #3695 / 3945
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #263 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 150 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #13 / 90
Number of attempts: 5

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: 8
Position: #69 / 439
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #395 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #269 / 651
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #98 / 270
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #355 / 1735
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #67 / 640
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #133 / 331
Number of attempts: 6

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 46
Position: #152 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #397 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1912 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #225 / 500
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse and count - 456 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #43 / 172
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #310 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #206 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #97 / 338
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #448 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1394 / 3580
Number of attempts: 5

Evan Coleman
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Freelance Mac/iOS Developer, Formerly @timehop, Aerospace Engineer, Student Pilot, Skier, Guitarist, Yankees, Knicks & Jets Fan.