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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #151 / 726
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1961 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #100 / 526
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #48 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 492 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #165 / 1124
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #145 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #328 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #409 / 1562
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #737 / 3904
Number of attempts: 1

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #6 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 209 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #53 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4883 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #774 / 1914
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #729 / 3098
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #437 / 1901
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #257 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #676 / 1674
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 328 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #125 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1474 / 4255
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #98 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 271 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

Word frequency alignment - 310 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: #109 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Pascal's Triangle - 42 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #9 / 19
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 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: #98 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #117 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 118 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #55 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #124 / 789
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #643 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #104 / 658
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #14 / 217
Number of attempts: 4

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #19 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #60 / 661
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2101 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: 11
Position: #62 / 532
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1088 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: #518 / 679
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #47 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1416 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #262 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #118 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #7 / 209
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #21 / 862
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #656 / 3902
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #179 / 1889
Number of attempts: 10