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Played Challenges

Create json from a .env file - 1518 entries

A simple everyday task.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #33 / 353
Number of attempts: 9

Reordering properties - 1136 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 44
Position: #58 / 269
Number of attempts: 9

Sort and Tag - 676 entries

The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 87
Position: #74 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Changing date formats - 687 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 45
Position: #28 / 188
Number of attempts: 4

YAML to dotenv - 1459 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #58 / 298
Number of attempts: 7

Reorganize Pokémon - 772 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #124 / 214
Number of attempts: 5

Rearrange array to single level - 1720 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #28 / 289
Number of attempts: 9

Rearrange array to one line - 807 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #31 / 190
Number of attempts: 5

New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #153 / 306
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 53
Position: #208 / 277
Number of attempts: 4

Plotting some variables in python - 1683 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #143 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #239 / 522
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #424 / 590
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #150 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #775 / 3087
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #39 / 539
Number of attempts: 7

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #188 / 901
Number of attempts: 7

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #391 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #457 / 1895
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #755 / 1643
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #263 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2087 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #277 / 513
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #1438 / 4208
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #110 / 771
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #135 / 783
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #202 / 676
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #676 / 1756
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #116 / 654
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1361 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #214 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 704 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #115 / 200
Number of attempts: 3

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: 12
Position: #118 / 413
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 897 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #137 / 223
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2062 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: #80 / 525
Number of attempts: 3

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: #597 / 673
Number of attempts: 2

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #77 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #294 / 538
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #132 / 351
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 806 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #28 / 271
Number of attempts: 9

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #535 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 1140 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #203 / 349
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: 22
Position: #360 / 841
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #761 / 3846
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1118 / 1847
Number of attempts: 1