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Played Challenges

Easier Align - 344 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 255
Position: #63 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #22 / 145
Number of attempts: 8

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: 22
Position: #769 / 7363
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #134 / 1257
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #157 / 3842
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #440 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #102 / 630
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #163 / 700
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #45 / 635
Number of attempts: 6

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: 13
Position: #181 / 744
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #474 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #343 / 695
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11358 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #809 / 4163
Number of attempts: 3

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 98 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 45
Position: #40 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Position: #126 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #54 / 1258
Number of attempts: 6

Combines all items - 303 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #26 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #18 / 81
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7797 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #244 / 2099
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #53 / 161
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #27 / 123
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #16 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #23 / 255
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #68 / 165
Number of attempts: 5

Change attribute to getter - 133 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 57
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #19 / 182
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #39 / 125
Number of attempts: 11

Align commas - 1049 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #51 / 241
Number of attempts: 7

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #39 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #71 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #35 / 155
Number of attempts: 11

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 1186
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #252 / 440
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 996 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #43 / 284
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #117 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #518 / 4161
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #190 / 1129
Number of attempts: 6

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #323 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #99 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 293
Number of attempts: 10

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: 11
Position: #78 / 578
Number of attempts: 9

Mess in revision history - 1160 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 246
Number of attempts: 11

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1069 / 3666
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #347 / 692
Number of attempts: 7

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 9
Position: #9 / 511
Number of attempts: 9

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: 14
Position: #257 / 1072
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #735 / 3945
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #221 / 356
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #86 / 439
Number of attempts: 8

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #45 / 473
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #231 / 736
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 767
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 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: 15
Position: #108 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #453 / 1735
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 185
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #79 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #178 / 331
Number of attempts: 6

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #42 / 194
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #14 / 639
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: 12
Position: #77 / 401
Number of attempts: 6

Assignment Alignment - 832 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #42 / 215
Number of attempts: 9

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: 11
Position: #42 / 500
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 999 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: #447 / 642
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 156
Number of attempts: 9

The Cake is a Lie - 1284 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #230 / 511
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #105 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1474 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #166 / 557
Number of attempts: 5

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #203 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #99 / 383
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3330 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #109 / 735
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12276 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #458 / 3578
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6548 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #150 / 1612
Number of attempts: 10

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