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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #6725 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4860 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1647 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1506 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #959 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #932 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #187 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2676 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2124 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 531 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #157 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #161 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 300 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #69 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #133 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 3
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 445 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: 23
  • Position: #196 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #181 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #600 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #312 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

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

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #200 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #170 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1362 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: 27
  • Position: #273 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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: 16
  • Position: #297 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 2
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 314 entries

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

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 123
  • Position: #50 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #266 / 464
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #256 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #529 / 539
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 813 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #192 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #95 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2382 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7610 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #1228 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 2
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