Played Challenges
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #209 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #211 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #123 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #432 / 695
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1824 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #735 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #116 / 136
- Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #27 / 55
- Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #219 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #24 / 274
- Number of attempts: 4
swap or reverse - 115 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #30 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 312 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #46 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #112 / 440
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #76 / 284
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 17
- Position: #74 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 325 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #86 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #85 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove hard line breaks - 67 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #18 / 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 788 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: #135 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 407 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #94 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2450 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #562 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #44 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #173 / 268
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #182 / 293
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #351 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #715 / 3666
- 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: 16
- Position: #614 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1454 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #149 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #45 / 163
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2078 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #270 / 651
- Number of attempts: 5
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #85 / 403
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #186 / 210
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 25
- Position: #241 / 331
- Number of attempts: 1
Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #75 / 179
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #133 / 639
- Number of attempts: 7
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #138 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #305 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #137 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 365 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #71 / 132
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 709 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #161 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #210 / 383
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #1402 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 1
Clark DuVall
Twitter: @theclarkatron
Programmer, cheese lover, software engineer at Google