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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #411 / 7450
Number of attempts: 7

Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #14 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #125 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #546 / 4216
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1069 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #55 / 428
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #76 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #17 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #139 / 1138
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: #56 / 586
Number of attempts: 6

Split the words - 372 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 50
Position: #105 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #146 / 520
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #155 / 3970
Number of attempts: 4

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 106 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #40 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 298 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #12 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 206 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #4 / 80
Number of attempts: 8

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #128 / 759
Number of attempts: 4

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #27 / 231
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #648 / 779
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2152 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #36 / 667
Number of attempts: 6

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #25 / 420
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: #47 / 275
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #42 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #125 / 1750
Number of attempts: 4

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #134 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #31 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #51 / 216
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 17
Position: #41 / 336
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #118 / 655
Number of attempts: 5

The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #114 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1258 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: 12
Position: #43 / 409
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 2046 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: 21
Position: #434 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #242 / 461
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 165
Number of attempts: 9

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1649 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #62 / 434
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 814
Number of attempts: 10

Joseph J. Piché
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I may or may not be an Android & iOS programmer. I may or may not have studied Philosophy.