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Played Challenges

Split the words - 399 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #16 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 8
Permutations N=4 - 82 entries

Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #15 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1688 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: 22
  • Position: #512 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #182 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 6
Create a pandoc compatible table - 241 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #43 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 229 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #34 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 279 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #22 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #357 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 6
constructor - 198 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 108
  • Position: #41 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 686 entries

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

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #22 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #28 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #42 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1313 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #207 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 6
CSV to JSON - 178 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 210
  • Position: #64 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 501 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: 26
  • Position: #96 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #51 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1109 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13644 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1205 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 2
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