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Played Challenges

Easier Align - 381 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 255
Position: #66 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 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 / 153
Number of attempts: 8

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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 / 7397
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #134 / 1265
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #157 / 3855
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #440 / 1891
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #102 / 634
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #165 / 703
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2872 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 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 751
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #474 / 1615
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #347 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #809 / 4181
Number of attempts: 3

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 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: #42 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Position: #127 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 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 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #54 / 1261
Number of attempts: 6

Combines all items - 313 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 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 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 / 83
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #244 / 2121
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #54 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #27 / 125
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #16 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #23 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #70 / 167
Number of attempts: 5

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #19 / 184
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #39 / 128
Number of attempts: 11

Align commas - 1092 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 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #39 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #71 / 269
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #35 / 159
Number of attempts: 11

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 1190
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #254 / 444
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1035 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #43 / 289
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #118 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #518 / 4170
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #190 / 1137
Number of attempts: 6

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #326 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #100 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 300
Number of attempts: 10

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: 11
Position: #78 / 582
Number of attempts: 9

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 249
Number of attempts: 11

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1069 / 3678
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #349 / 696
Number of attempts: 7

Letter case trickery - 1619 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 / 515
Number of attempts: 9

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: 14
Position: #257 / 1075
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #738 / 3957
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #221 / 360
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 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 / 446
Number of attempts: 8

Saving the hashes(#) - 2048 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 / 478
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #236 / 751
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 774
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #236 / 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: 15
Position: #108 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #453 / 1743
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 998 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 190
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #79 / 645
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1347 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: #180 / 334
Number of attempts: 6

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #42 / 198
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1929 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #14 / 651
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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 / 403
Number of attempts: 6

Assignment Alignment - 875 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #42 / 218
Number of attempts: 9

Shebangs for all - 1961 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 / 506
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1037 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 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 159
Number of attempts: 9

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #230 / 523
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #107 / 342
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #166 / 577
Number of attempts: 5

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #203 / 551
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 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 / 403
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3569 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #119 / 770
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 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 / 3653
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6825 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #151 / 1673
Number of attempts: 10

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