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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 340 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #45 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 664 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #132 / 379
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 1581
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 615 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #40 / 210
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #47 / 361
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 218 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #72 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 168 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: #38 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 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: #31 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 643 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #34 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 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: #147 / 435
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 99 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #21 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 195 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #13 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 96 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #25 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2409 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #594 / 730
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: 31
Position: #25 / 221
Number of attempts: 9

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: #41 / 761
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2035 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #41 / 641
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 995 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #28 / 399
Number of attempts: 4

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: #38 / 191
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: 6
Position: #45 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5016 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #132 / 1729
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 548 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #148 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1940 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #27 / 637
Number of attempts: 6

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #51 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

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: 17
Position: #42 / 328
Number of attempts: 7

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 256 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #107 / 636
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 990 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: #286 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 366 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #20 / 132
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #35 / 229
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 826 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 452
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 639 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #229 / 397
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 503 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #40 / 156
Number of attempts: 9

The Cake is a Lie - 1278 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #129 / 509
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 500 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #73 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 362 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 451 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 196 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #91 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 577 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #87 / 228
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 701 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: #48 / 248
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat most common surnames - 625 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #48 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 639 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #29 / 173
Number of attempts: 8

Get rid of html tags - 356 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #176 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1442 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 546
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1287 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #120 / 515
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 531 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #25 / 167
Number of attempts: 8

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1281 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 367
Number of attempts: 8

Braces or Brackets? - 805 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #9 / 270
Number of attempts: 11

Flodder-challenge - 1038 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #49 / 298
Number of attempts: 13

Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #105 / 3530
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #37 / 1573
Number of attempts: 8