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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4427 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #667 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #43 / 1887
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #578 / 1870
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 802 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #125 / 228
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #224 / 1604
Number of attempts: 6

Across-Down Flip - 54 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 42
Position: #19 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #25 / 698
Number of attempts: 4

Return the cow - 72 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 55
Position: #7 / 29
Number of attempts: 4

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 34 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Best score: 51
Best player score: 55
Position: #8 / 14
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 344
Number of attempts: 2

Square numbers - 104 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #22 / 41
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 179 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 62
Number of attempts: 6

Suffix sort - 255 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #12 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 244 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #24 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 173 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #60 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 449 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #9 / 157
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 469 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #9 / 144
Number of attempts: 5

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 126 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #14 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #6 / 64
Number of attempts: 5

Winding path - 94 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #6 / 41
Number of attempts: 5

Comparing scores - 95 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 34
Number of attempts: 5

Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #9 / 18
Number of attempts: 4

Counting in binary - 478 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #40 / 114
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1598 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: 10
Position: #45 / 514
Number of attempts: 3

Untangle my tail, please! - 58 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #15 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #516 / 1073
Number of attempts: 3

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 70 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

Recursive Cowsay - 59 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #10 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 192 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #13 / 70
Number of attempts: 5

Change The Perspective - 38 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #8 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

Number an outline - 252 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 60
Position: #49 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #45 / 3950
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 361 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: 27
Position: #18 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Assign list - 170 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #13 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Draw the Go board - 141 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 51
Position: #6 / 49
Number of attempts: 6

paste indent correction - JS - 103 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1017 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: 16
Position: #17 / 303
Number of attempts: 6

Delete unwanted lines - 398 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #28 / 227
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #40 / 173
Number of attempts: 7

Circle in a square - 141 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: #6 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #116 / 359
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #27 / 443
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 476
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #6 / 748
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #137 / 772
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #60 / 653
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #68 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #165 / 1742
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #37 / 643
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 11
Position: #13 / 502
Number of attempts: 11

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #147 / 517
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #159 / 542
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #87 / 758
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #157 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #62 / 1652
Number of attempts: 8