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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #36 / 109
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 136
Number of attempts: 3

Word Blender - 157 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: #33 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 1674
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1048 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: #271 / 398
Number of attempts: 2

Return the cow - 81 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 58
Position: #13 / 32
Number of attempts: 3

O Christmas Tree - 135 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 45
Number of attempts: 2

Cartesian product - 277 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #29 / 102
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #154 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 103 entries

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

Best score: 102
Best player score: 114
Position: #8 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 376 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: #65 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1761 / 3716
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #239 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2085 / 3991
Number of attempts: 1

Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #45 / 138
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1040 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: #134 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Circle in a square - 193 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 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Here, piggy, piggy... - 88 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 88
Position: #15 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Happy New Year! - 150 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #34 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #52 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 238 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 388 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: #43 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #163 / 216
Number of attempts: 2

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 224 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: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #29 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 473 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #47 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Getters & Setters: Java - 219 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: #19 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #53 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: #133 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 909 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #99 / 226
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #84 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1091 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 / 680
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 74
Position: #53 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 112
Position: #19 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 501 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: #93 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 179 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: #50 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 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 / 241
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #67 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #123 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 575 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #44 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Turn this csv list into queries - 278 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 107
Position: #25 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Dumb to smart - 116 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #15 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #32 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 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 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #35 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #11 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #20 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Linear congruential generator - 157 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 45
Position: #46 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 657 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #143 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 844 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 16
Position: #160 / 282
Number of attempts: 1

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 241 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: #43 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #132 / 238
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 56
Position: #85 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 428 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: #27 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 734 entries

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

Best score: 27
Best player score: 38
Position: #146 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #479 / 862
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #834 / 3902
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 36
Position: #438 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1

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