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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4848 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #209 / 1907
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 855 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #211 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #123 / 765
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #438 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1839 / 4240
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #751 / 1277
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #121 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 181 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #33 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #219 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 282
Number of attempts: 4

swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #46 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1686 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #117 / 451
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #79 / 291
Number of attempts: 8

Shuffled numbers - 254 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: #78 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #92 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #86 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

Remove hard line breaks - 77 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: #20 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

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: #140 / 251
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 436 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #94 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2482 / 4216
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #568 / 1142
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #44 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #176 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1167 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #186 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 889 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #355 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #715 / 3710
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3191 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: #620 / 1088
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1473 / 3983
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #149 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #46 / 177
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #279 / 678
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #85 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #191 / 216
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1362 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: #246 / 339
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 464 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: #76 / 183
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #145 / 658
Number of attempts: 7

The holy-grail may help - 392 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #138 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #316 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 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: #152 / 252
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #77 / 145
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse characters in a line - 813 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 17
Position: #177 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1704 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #239 / 448
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1469 / 3865
Number of attempts: 1

Clark DuVall
Twitter: @theclarkatron

Programmer, cheese lover, software engineer at Google