Played Challenges
HS exam question - 1497 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #102 / 393
- Number of attempts: 5
delete swap - 1522 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #186 / 476
- Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2011 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #321 / 370
- Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4362 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #130 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 15
xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #18 / 213
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #6 / 166
- Number of attempts: 9
Capitalize the Names - 361 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #12 / 91
- Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 1114 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #51 / 517
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #6 / 225
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #2150 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #156 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #649 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #730 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #529 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 9
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #402 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #252 / 386
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #746 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #651 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3050 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1028 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1517 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 6
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #111 / 258
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #614 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 12
- Position: #99 / 401
- Number of attempts: 7
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #34 / 401
- Number of attempts: 3
Finlay McAfee
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