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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 855 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #148 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #984 / 1658
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 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: 42
  • Position: #117 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #338 / 352
  • 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: 29
  • Position: #58 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 40
  • Position: #80 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1686 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1650 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: 11
  • Position: #224 / 521
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1024 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: 19
  • Position: #172 / 305
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #453 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #513 / 785
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1071 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: #301 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1761 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #297 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1561 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #357 / 604
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2503 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #660 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 5
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