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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #973 / 1662
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #63 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 556 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #81 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1663 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: 13
  • Position: #371 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 18
  • Position: #964 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 315 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #38 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1954 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 387 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: 45
  • Position: #109 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign list - 202 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #50 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #72 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #76 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #130 / 364
  • Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #62 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #190 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 6
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #211 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #686 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #115 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #365 / 785
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #385 / 678
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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: 16
  • Position: #174 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1330 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #381 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #392 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2090 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: 15
  • Position: #274 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #332 / 850
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1160 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #1212 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 1
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