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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4887 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #209 / 1916
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #211 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #123 / 773
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #441 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1844 / 4261
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #754 / 1281
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #123 / 144
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 183 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #219 / 357
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 285
Number of attempts: 4

swap or reverse - 132 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 342 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #46 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1699 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #118 / 459
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #79 / 292
Number of attempts: 8

Shuffled numbers - 256 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: #80 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 379 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #94 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #86 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Remove hard line breaks - 89 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: #22 / 38
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: #142 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 443 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #94 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2488 / 4226
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #571 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #44 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #179 / 277
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #190 / 310
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #358 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #715 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #623 / 1094
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1480 / 3993
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 451 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #149 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 659 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #47 / 179
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2237 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #280 / 687
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1088 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #85 / 427
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 481 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #192 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1379 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: #248 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 477 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: #79 / 186
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1970 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #148 / 662
Number of attempts: 7

The holy-grail may help - 408 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #138 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #319 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 611 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: #157 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #78 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse characters in a line - 847 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: #183 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1757 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: #246 / 459
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1482 / 3914
Number of attempts: 1

Clark DuVall
Twitter: @theclarkatron

Programmer, cheese lover, software engineer at Google