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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #29 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #403 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
underscore_to_camelCase - 197 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 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #38 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #14 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #79 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #54 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #77 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1040 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: #22 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 5
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #4 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #167 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #143 / 234
  • 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: #3 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #9 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 3
un-C-escape string - 63 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #3 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #44 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 5
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #22 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #46 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #139 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #165 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 432 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #82 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #171 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #77 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 9
Jiří Chára
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