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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 344 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 73
Position: #68 / 102
Number of attempts: 4

Word Blender - 146 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #5 / 55
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #9 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #114 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 939 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #37 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #83 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 77
Position: #7 / 21
Number of attempts: 4

Happy New Year! - 143 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #30 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #50 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #32 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #17 / 143
Number of attempts: 3

Getters & Setters: Java - 205 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 94
Position: #9 / 56
Number of attempts: 8

Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #14 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 205
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: 13
Position: #132 / 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: 13
Position: #167 / 500
Number of attempts: 1

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: #115 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 116
Position: #26 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

Letters are numbers - 150 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #16 / 73
Number of attempts: 5

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #11 / 85
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #10 / 230
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: #138 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #149 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 204 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 100
Position: #6 / 95
Number of attempts: 5

Dumb to smart - 96 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #13 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #64 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 512 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #28 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 52
Position: #5 / 49
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 198 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #33 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #154 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 129 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #11 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #61 / 198
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 90
Position: #158 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #16 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 341 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 113
Number of attempts: 3

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: #32 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #56 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 23
Position: #259 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 35
Position: #124 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 37
Position: #475 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1