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Played Challenges

New teacher - 1480 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #129 / 310
Number of attempts: 10

months to html list items - 1135 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #34 / 307
Number of attempts: 7

Quicksort - 2096 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #115 / 466
Number of attempts: 9

Populate 3D bone names list - 652 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #33 / 168
Number of attempts: 8

Remove line numbers - 779 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #68 / 206
Number of attempts: 5

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 577 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #209 / 325
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #99 / 576
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #61 / 355
Number of attempts: 5

Fizzbuzz - 612 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 44
Best player score: 45
Position: #6 / 171
Number of attempts: 21

Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #37 / 480
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1843 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #344 / 573
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #252 / 622
Number of attempts: 5

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1681 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #43 / 565
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #55 / 274
Number of attempts: 6

Plotting some variables in python - 1684 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 51
Position: #223 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: 21
Position: #210 / 227
Number of attempts: 12

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2034 / 3898
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4848 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #795 / 1907
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #503 / 1181
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #174 / 907
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #453 / 1897
Number of attempts: 6

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 386
Number of attempts: 13

From argument to object - 1552 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #165 / 469
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #84 / 710
Number of attempts: 7

Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 123
Number of attempts: 12

Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #269 / 765
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2611 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #240 / 707
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1508 / 4240
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #282 / 594
Number of attempts: 3

Un"finnish"ed Work - 126 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #56 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #276 / 1277
Number of attempts: 12

Combines all items - 316 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #88 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #83 / 263
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #304 / 431
Number of attempts: 14

Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #98 / 248
Number of attempts: 13

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #69 / 211
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #93 / 257
Number of attempts: 12

Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #265 / 415
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 998 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #21 / 166
Number of attempts: 27

Array transposition - 2470 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #48 / 457
Number of attempts: 19

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #96 / 270
Number of attempts: 8

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #57 / 160
Number of attempts: 9

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 282
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #204 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #57 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #65 / 251
Number of attempts: 5

Happy TvvO - 436 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #156 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3229 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #435 / 1142
Number of attempts: 4

Change name of a variable - 180 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #128 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #58 / 158
Number of attempts: 8

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 257 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #14 / 104
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1167 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #295 / 304
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2036 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 589
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 889 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #223 / 442
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #22 / 104
Number of attempts: 5

Going underground.... - 357 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #9 / 129
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1609 / 3710
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #2027 / 3865
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 35
Position: #417 / 1865
Number of attempts: 6