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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #390 / 522
Number of attempts: 6

RUST match with enum for Coin - 195 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 137
Position: #46 / 55
Number of attempts: 4

swap number pairs - 2169 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 37
Position: #310 / 393
Number of attempts: 6

Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 54
Position: #96 / 116
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4579 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 28
Position: #999 / 1117
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #133 / 319
Number of attempts: 12

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #312 / 535
Number of attempts: 5

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: 38
Position: #183 / 234
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #259 / 441
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #672 / 1643
Number of attempts: 11

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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: 20
Position: #179 / 215
Number of attempts: 16

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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: 46
Position: #314 / 387
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #44 / 197
Number of attempts: 9

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #95 / 193
Number of attempts: 16

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #258 / 363
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #118 / 450
Number of attempts: 13

Vertical Limit - 2615 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #312 / 772
Number of attempts: 10

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #739 / 783
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #181 / 676
Number of attempts: 12

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 421
Number of attempts: 16

Remove noise from HTTP log - 732 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: #136 / 278
Number of attempts: 12

Remove semicolons after expressions - 669 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #115 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #52 / 149
Number of attempts: 13

Case preserving word replacement - 463 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #63 / 182
Number of attempts: 8

imports alignment (python) - 704 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 53
Position: #196 / 200
Number of attempts: 4

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #69 / 99
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #141 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #61 / 657
Number of attempts: 12

Assignment Alignment - 897 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #116 / 223
Number of attempts: 16

Shebangs for all - 2062 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: #369 / 525
Number of attempts: 14

A Simple One - 1070 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: #515 / 673
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 556 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #90 / 191
Number of attempts: 12

Reformat a C golf submission - 629 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 40
Position: #180 / 214
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat most common surnames - 795 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 75
Position: #215 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #190 / 639
Number of attempts: 10

Add fold markers to a .c file - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #106 / 197
Number of attempts: 12

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #255 / 841
Number of attempts: 11

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #2842 / 3846
Number of attempts: 9

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7509 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 46
Position: #1278 / 1848
Number of attempts: 7

Scott Atkins
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