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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1774 / 1915
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #620 / 773
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1019 / 1675
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 16
Position: #632 / 712
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #265 / 4258
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 70
Position: #272 / 276
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1011 / 1281
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1493 / 2158
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #255 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #1169 / 1200
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #171 / 285
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 342 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #100 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #156 / 292
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 256 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: #91 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #197 / 246
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: #204 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2479 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #72 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #232 / 362
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #272 / 310
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #501 / 596
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #149 / 451
Number of attempts: 5

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 101 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: #36 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2017 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 41
Position: #639 / 711
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1688 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: #441 / 526
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #619 / 1093
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2883 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #190 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #500 / 684
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1087 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #347 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1587 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #250 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #574 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1313 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: #287 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1093 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 / 681
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 709 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #314 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #449 / 543
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #465 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #529 / 866
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2202 / 3907
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 57
Position: #1659 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Hendrik Lammers
Twitter: @hendriklammers

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