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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #1764 / 1904
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #608 / 760
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1003 / 1643
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 16
Position: #625 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #265 / 4234
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 70
Position: #270 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1004 / 1274
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1486 / 2147
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #251 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #1164 / 1194
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #167 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #98 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #154 / 290
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #88 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 456 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #193 / 240
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: #200 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2468 / 4208
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 243 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #72 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #227 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #266 / 301
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #493 / 587
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #149 / 439
Number of attempts: 5

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 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: #34 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2011 / 3703
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 41
Position: #635 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #435 / 520
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #616 / 1086
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2874 / 3979
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #190 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #494 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #343 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1580 / 1756
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #250 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #571 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: #283 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1070 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 / 673
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #312 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #446 / 538
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #453 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #516 / 841
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2171 / 3846
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 57
Position: #1625 / 1847
Number of attempts: 3

Hendrik Lammers
Twitter: @hendriklammers

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