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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3129 / 3852
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #189 / 1887
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #213 / 4174
Number of attempts: 6

Interweave two blocks of text - 641 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: #50 / 212
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #862 / 1260
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #84 / 421
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #136 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 628 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #76 / 252
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #676 / 1188
Number of attempts: 4

camel riding - 775 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #250 / 277
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 118 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 302 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #76 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #158 / 442
Number of attempts: 3

remove all lines in first part - 197 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: #20 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1000 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 40
Position: #275 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffled numbers - 237 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 / 95
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 / 244
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1536 / 4166
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #549 / 1132
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #76 / 352
Number of attempts: 10

120 Degrees - 469 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #21 / 144
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #145 / 436
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #687 / 3677
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3454 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #322 / 695
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1598 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: #458 / 514
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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 / 1073
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #3700 / 3950
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1017 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: #264 / 303
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 157 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 / 92
Number of attempts: 5

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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 / 443
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #396 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #269 / 653
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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 / 272
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #355 / 1742
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #67 / 643
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1345 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: #135 / 333
Number of attempts: 6

HTML to Haml - 843 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 46
Position: #153 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #401 / 646
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1917 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 / 502
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse and count - 459 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: #44 / 174
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #311 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #206 / 517
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #99 / 340
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #463 / 758
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1408 / 3626
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.