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Played Challenges

Interweave two blocks of text - 658 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: 17
Position: #82 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 248 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 128
Position: #92 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #326 / 774
Number of attempts: 2

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 143
Position: #51 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #700 / 1743
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 998 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #55 / 190
Number of attempts: 5

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 96
Position: #35 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Multiplication table. - 211 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 51
Position: #17 / 66
Number of attempts: 5

Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #138 / 645
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1347 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 334
Number of attempts: 8

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 98 entries

Same class but reverse!

Best score: 79
Best player score: 127
Position: #24 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #4 / 101
Number of attempts: 6

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #90 / 150
Number of attempts: 5

Case preserving word replacement - 454 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: #15 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #34 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #19 / 198
Number of attempts: 6

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 279 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #79 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #84 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #30 / 204
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat long lines - 358 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: 17
Position: #61 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #50 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #26 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 145
Number of attempts: 6

Getters & Setters: Java - 207 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 133
Position: #43 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #187 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: #24 / 403
Number of attempts: 4

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 84
Position: #20 / 66
Number of attempts: 6

Shebangs for all - 1961 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: #107 / 506
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 1037 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: #205 / 657
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 409 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 138
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse and count - 470 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #34 / 175
Number of attempts: 8

Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 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: 14
Position: #20 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 558 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: 7
Position: #52 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Linear congruential generator - 137 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #18 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #68 / 551
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #21 / 403
Number of attempts: 6

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #186 / 770
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #2822 / 3653
Number of attempts: 2