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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18784 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1366 / 3878
Number of attempts: 5

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #95 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

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: #124 / 426
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2369 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #288 / 756
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #779 / 1631
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2274 / 4216
Number of attempts: 2

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 52
Position: #22 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 266 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #47 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #62 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #428 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #268 / 438
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #155 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #74 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 357 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #89 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1772 / 3695
Number of attempts: 1

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 33
Position: #58 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2091 / 3970
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #205 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 38
Position: #22 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle and Sort - 233 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #31 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 36
Position: #36 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #32 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 90 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #24 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #143 / 447
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Best score: 37
Best player score: 56
Position: #14 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #321 / 759
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #531 / 779
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #186 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #126 / 1750
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #363 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

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: 33
Position: #313 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #109 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 289 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #74 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #436 / 655
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: 18
Position: #341 / 409
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #312 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1064 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: #282 / 670
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #431 / 534
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #179 / 348
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #112 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: 33
Position: #120 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #51 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 219 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #50 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #139 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 742 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 57
Position: #88 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Get rid of html tags - 415 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #219 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1647 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #469 / 608
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 386 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #59 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1501 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #113 / 582
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #50 / 191
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #208 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 1073 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #107 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #304 / 814
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #203 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13095 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #999 / 3767
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7230 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 35
Position: #350 / 1779
Number of attempts: 5