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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4866 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #905 / 1913
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #568 / 768
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #838 / 1670
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1553 / 4253
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5732 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #625 / 1278
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 181 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #28 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #185 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 209 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #24 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 455
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #95 / 291
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #86 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #178 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 156 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #13 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Refactoring useless Method away - 134 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 52
Position: #12 / 37
Number of attempts: 5

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: 14
Position: #125 / 252
Number of attempts: 3

increment by column in XML - 165 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #32 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #37 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2073 / 4222
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 201 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #24 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3240 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #524 / 1146
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 359
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 187 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: #12 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #145 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #105 / 307
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 12
Position: #146 / 592
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #155 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #275 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #41 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #188 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 376 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #72 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10752 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #534 / 3713
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #326 / 709
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3201 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: 17
Position: #836 / 1092
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1386 / 3988
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1040 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: 19
Position: #183 / 307
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #175 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #208 / 456
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #359 / 776
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 681
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5121 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #835 / 1762
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #287 / 657
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1375 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: 17
Position: #59 / 340
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #142 / 659
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #522 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1360 / 3892
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #672 / 1882
Number of attempts: 4