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Played Challenges

Create a pandoc compatible table - 179 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #37 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #142 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2035 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #7 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 6
Append semicolon after expressions - 995 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #263 / 399
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #17 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 607 entries

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

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #157 / 254
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5013 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #711 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 2
Format the output - 143 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #23 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 3
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #103 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 21
  • Position: #142 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 5
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