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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 345 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #33 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 451 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Word Blender - 147 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 50
Position: #32 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 1604
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 45
Position: #252 / 371
Number of attempts: 2

Return the cow - 72 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 58
Position: #12 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #17 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

Cartesian product - 222 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #27 / 93
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #154 / 344
Number of attempts: 1

Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 87 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

Best score: 102
Best player score: 114
Position: #7 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 349 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: #63 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1741 / 3677
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1598 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: #231 / 514
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2059 / 3950
Number of attempts: 1

Pairs of numbers - 361 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #44 / 134
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1017 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: 18
Position: #132 / 303
Number of attempts: 1

Circle in a square - 141 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Here, piggy, piggy... - 76 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 88
Position: #14 / 22
Number of attempts: 2

Happy New Year! - 144 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #33 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 263 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #48 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #28 / 97
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 346 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #39 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #159 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 171 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #27 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #43 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Getters & Setters: Java - 206 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 105
Position: #18 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 165 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #50 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 352 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: 13
Position: #124 / 402
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 842 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #96 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 12
Position: #74 / 502
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1009 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: #8 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 288 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 74
Position: #51 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 112
Position: #18 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 459 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #89 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 154 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 32
Position: #48 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: #7 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #62 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #113 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 170
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 467 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #34 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Turn this csv list into queries - 205 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 107
Position: #22 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #12 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #31 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: #15 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 366 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #29 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #11 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 199 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #20 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #148 / 340
Number of attempts: 2

Linear congruential generator - 132 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 45
Position: #44 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 590 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #133 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: 16
Position: #145 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 190 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: 29
Position: #37 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #114 / 202
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 686 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 56
Position: #75 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 342 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: 19
Position: #21 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #127 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #420 / 758
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #770 / 3626
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #401 / 1652
Number of attempts: 1

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