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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 345 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #49 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 49
  • Position: #329 / 371
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1 / 344
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #528 / 1073
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #67 / 3950
  • Number of attempts: 4
Word frequency alignment - 278 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #74 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 506 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #15 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 5
Printable ASCII characters - 136 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #16 / 43
  • 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: #67 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairs Indenting - 452 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #30 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #9 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 6
Flip the chessboard - 79 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #13 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #45 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 7
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #31 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 498 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #39 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #149 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 5
Alphabetize the directory - 284 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #51 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 15
  • Position: #18 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 7
Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #123 / 646
  • Number of attempts: 5
CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #14 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 12
  • Position: #122 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #12 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #239 / 404
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 467 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #163 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 590 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #146 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 732 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #53 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #524 / 542
  • 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: 36
  • Position: #659 / 758
  • Number of attempts: 2
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