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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33256 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #87 / 7337
  • Number of attempts: 7
Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #29 / 740
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #403 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 3
underscore_to_camelCase - 160 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #6 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7708 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #38 / 2084
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap assigned value - 600 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #14 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #79 / 1180
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10595 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #54 / 3657
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3105 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #21 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #59 / 3939
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #20 / 302
  • Number of attempts: 5
NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #4 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1068 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #154 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #136 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3 / 761
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 475 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #9 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 677 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: #31 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
un-C-escape string - 55 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #3 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5013 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #44 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 5
The meaning - 548 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #22 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #41 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1940 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #131 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #159 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 359 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #75 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12045 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #171 / 3528
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6369 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #66 / 1572
  • Number of attempts: 9
Jiří Chára
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