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Played Challenges

Easier Align - 358 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 255
Position: #65 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 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 / 148
Number of attempts: 8

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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 / 7384
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #134 / 1259
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #157 / 3852
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #440 / 1887
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #102 / 633
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #165 / 702
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2869 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 / 639
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 750
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #474 / 1605
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #346 / 698
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #809 / 4174
Number of attempts: 3

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 99 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: #41 / 43
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! - 64 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 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #54 / 1260
Number of attempts: 6

Combines all items - 307 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 / 139
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 232 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 / 82
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #244 / 2114
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 689 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #54 / 162
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph sort - 431 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #27 / 124
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 180 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #16 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #23 / 258
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #69 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Change attribute to getter - 134 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 58
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 780 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #19 / 183
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 502 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #39 / 127
Number of attempts: 11

Align commas - 1063 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 / 243
Number of attempts: 7

Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #39 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #71 / 268
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 575 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #35 / 157
Number of attempts: 11

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 1188
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #253 / 442
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1000 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #43 / 287
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #118 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #518 / 4166
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #190 / 1132
Number of attempts: 6

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #324 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #99 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 298
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 1996 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 / 581
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 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1069 / 3677
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3454 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #348 / 695
Number of attempts: 7

Letter case trickery - 1598 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 / 514
Number of attempts: 9

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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 / 1073
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #736 / 3950
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #221 / 359
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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 / 443
Number of attempts: 8

Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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 / 476
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #234 / 748
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 772
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #234 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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 / 272
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #453 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 188
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #79 / 643
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1345 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 / 333
Number of attempts: 6

imports alignment (python) - 663 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #42 / 196
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #14 / 646
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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 / 402
Number of attempts: 6

Assignment Alignment - 842 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #42 / 217
Number of attempts: 9

Shebangs for all - 1917 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 / 502
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1009 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 / 648
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 - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #230 / 517
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #107 / 340
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #166 / 567
Number of attempts: 5

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #203 / 542
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 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 / 397
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #117 / 758
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 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 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #151 / 1652
Number of attempts: 10

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