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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4362 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #781 / 1071
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #4149 / 7364
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1637 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #1331 / 1864
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #607 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1340 / 1585
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #445 / 695
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3714 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1109 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1783 / 2100
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #320 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 252 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #78 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #99 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #109 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #205 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1043 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #355 / 440
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #107 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2834 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #942 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #307 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #71 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #97 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #501 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 710 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: #137 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #371 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2750 / 3666
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #876 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2878 / 3945
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #128 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #205 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #130 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #397 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #621 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #378 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: #224 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1390 / 1735
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #345 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: #316 / 500
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1001 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 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #316 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #437 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #403 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2390 / 3580
Number of attempts: 1

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