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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1544 / 1887
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #913 / 1604
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 44
Position: #217 / 371
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #539 / 1260
Number of attempts: 8

Cartesian product - 222 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 57
Position: #86 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 794 entries

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: 24
Position: #231 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1436 / 4166
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #902 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #253 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #520 / 3677
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1401 / 3950
Number of attempts: 3

Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #124 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #716 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #166 / 410
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 498 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #121 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

constructor - 181 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 101
Position: #36 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #242 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #701 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #85 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 47
Position: #134 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 420 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #69 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #103 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #328 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1345 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: 24
Position: #217 / 333
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 392 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 35
Position: #149 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

Before there was Farmville... - 98 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 247
Position: #41 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 843 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 46
Position: #149 / 203
Number of attempts: 2

expand a list comprehension (python) - 302 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 72
Position: #100 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 346 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: 21
Position: #101 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 34
Position: #612 / 646
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 149 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 31
Position: #62 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Getters & Setters: Java - 206 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: 158
Position: #52 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: 21
Position: #376 / 402
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 158
Position: #56 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 18
Position: #358 / 502
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1009 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: #250 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 130
Position: #72 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 372 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #49 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 154 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #32 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 238 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 34
Position: #77 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: 16
Position: #130 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #220 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #218 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #72 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #66 / 170
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 467 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #152 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 205 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 143
Position: #77 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #328 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 276 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #63 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: 10
Position: #216 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #78 / 237
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #279 / 340
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 590 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 45
Position: #140 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 574 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: 30
Position: #87 / 203
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #91 / 542
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #901 / 3626
Number of attempts: 8