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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 797 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #34 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 1630
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #51 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #270 / 419
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: #9 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #153 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #98 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #128 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: #103 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #134 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 361 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: #91 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #179 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #103 / 149
Number of attempts: 4

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #42 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 372 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 211
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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 / 407
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #138 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2016 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: #338 / 518
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1057 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 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 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: #93 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #177 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #108 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 550 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #130 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #104 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #38 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1359 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #480 / 530
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 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: #221 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 66
Position: #34 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #55 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #365 / 593
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1476 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #46 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 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: #175 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1580 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #180 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 1044 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: #216 / 323
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3741 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 35
Position: #681 / 802
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1323 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 47
Position: #296 / 344
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12955 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2359 / 3730
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7124 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 47
Position: #1243 / 1745
Number of attempts: 1