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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4462 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #798 / 1093
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #4170 / 7407
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4798 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1646 / 1891
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #1338 / 1874
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #612 / 752
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4970 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1369 / 1618
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #449 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3730 / 4185
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1115 / 1263
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1799 / 2125
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #325 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 273 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #81 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #102 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #111 / 128
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #208 / 253
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1047 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #358 / 444
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #107 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15967 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2842 / 4174
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #947 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #310 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #73 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #100 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: #505 / 582
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 713 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: #138 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #374 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2760 / 3679
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #878 / 1075
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2891 / 3960
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #130 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #205 / 360
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 598 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #131 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #400 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #636 / 754
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #387 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: #227 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5067 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1397 / 1746
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 574 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 362
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1236 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: #348 / 404
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1982 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: #322 / 510
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1043 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 / 659
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #317 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #445 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1421 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #422 / 552
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12680 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2450 / 3665
Number of attempts: 1

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