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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1771 / 1912
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #615 / 768
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1015 / 1670
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 16
Position: #628 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #265 / 4253
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 70
Position: #271 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1007 / 1277
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1490 / 2153
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #252 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #1167 / 1197
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #169 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 332 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #100 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #155 / 291
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 254 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #195 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #202 / 252
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2476 / 4222
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 246 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #72 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #230 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #269 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2048 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #497 / 592
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #149 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 98 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 158
Position: #35 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2015 / 3712
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 41
Position: #637 / 709
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1664 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: 14
Position: #438 / 523
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3200 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #618 / 1091
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2880 / 3988
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #190 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #498 / 681
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #346 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1585 / 1761
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 581 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #250 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #574 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 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: 15
Position: #285 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1079 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: #405 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 705 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #313 / 415
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #448 / 541
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #460 / 651
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #525 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2194 / 3892
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 57
Position: #1651 / 1882
Number of attempts: 3

Hendrik Lammers
Twitter: @hendriklammers

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