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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4595 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #825 / 1121
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #4207 / 7503
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1659 / 1910
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #1355 / 1898
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #625 / 767
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1411 / 1667
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #451 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3774 / 4246
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1128 / 1277
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1822 / 2153
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #331 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 296 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #83 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #103 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 528 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #113 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #215 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1052 / 1196
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #363 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #107 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2869 / 4218
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #953 / 1143
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #313 / 358
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #74 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #101 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 16
Position: #510 / 591
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Position: #141 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #376 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2784 / 3711
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 17
Position: #884 / 1091
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2909 / 3986
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #134 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #205 / 366
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #138 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #409 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #649 / 775
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #396 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #233 / 279
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1408 / 1759
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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: 18
Position: #356 / 416
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #332 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1077 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #423 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #320 / 464
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #457 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #465 / 610
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2575 / 3879
Number of attempts: 1

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