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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #827 / 1124
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #4214 / 7517
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1664 / 1915
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #1357 / 1901
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #631 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1418 / 1675
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #454 / 712
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3781 / 4258
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1132 / 1281
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1826 / 2158
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #332 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 315 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #85 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #105 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #115 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 695 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #216 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1055 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #366 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 440 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #107 / 212
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2875 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #957 / 1147
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #317 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #76 / 121
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 485 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #103 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #515 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 739 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: #142 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #378 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2788 / 3717
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #887 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2913 / 3991
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #134 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #205 / 369
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 659 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #138 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #411 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #652 / 778
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1087 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #398 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 759 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: #235 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1412 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #359 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #334 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1093 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 / 681
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #322 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #460 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1598 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #471 / 617
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2595 / 3907
Number of attempts: 1

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