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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 184 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #60 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #226 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #392 / 1585
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #71 / 695
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1881 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #387 / 1258
Number of attempts: 8

Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #41 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #107 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #166 / 440
Number of attempts: 4

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: #25 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #67 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

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: #87 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #81 / 242
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1577 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #569 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #74 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #255 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #749 / 3667
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: 15
Position: #449 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 69 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 28
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #562 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #94 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

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: 9
Position: #216 / 439
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #122 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #277 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #463 / 738
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #223 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #215 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #361 / 1736
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #171 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #125 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #55 / 202
Number of attempts: 7

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #101 / 639
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #420 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #308 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

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: 7
Position: #89 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 559 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #61 / 200
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #134 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #163 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #128 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2535 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #306 / 1616
Number of attempts: 4

Skúli Jóhannsson
Twitter: @skulibj

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