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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #34 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 1604
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 245 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #50 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #265 / 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: #9 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #151 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #98 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 144 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 58
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 663 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #127 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 392 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #102 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 843 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #133 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 346 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #179 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #100 / 145
Number of attempts: 4

Solve the Sokoban - 165 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #41 / 73
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 352 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

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: #9 / 402
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 842 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #137 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #328 / 502
Number of attempts: 3

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: #161 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #90 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #104 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #125 / 170
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 467 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #96 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #37 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #469 / 517
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: 10
Position: #213 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 107 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 66
Position: #32 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 199 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #55 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #343 / 567
Number of attempts: 2

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: #46 / 542
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 52
Position: #163 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #167 / 397
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 930 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 49
Position: #204 / 295
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 35
Position: #646 / 758
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 47
Position: #278 / 321
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #2291 / 3626
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 47
Position: #1205 / 1652
Number of attempts: 1