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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #905 / 1915
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #573 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #841 / 1675
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1553 / 4258
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #627 / 1281
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 183 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 603 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #185 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 210 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: #25 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #158 / 458
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #96 / 292
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII box - 379 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #88 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #180 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 174 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #14 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

Refactoring useless Method away - 135 entries

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

Best score: 47
Best player score: 52
Position: #12 / 38
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: #127 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

increment by column in XML - 168 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #34 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 440 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #37 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2076 / 4225
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 204 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #25 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #524 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #155 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 197 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 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #147 / 277
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #105 / 310
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #147 / 596
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 739 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: #156 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #277 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 390 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #42 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #190 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 377 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: #73 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #534 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #328 / 711
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #837 / 1093
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1389 / 3991
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 - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #175 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #209 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #359 / 778
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 684
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #836 / 1764
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #287 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1377 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 / 341
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #143 / 661
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #526 / 866
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1364 / 3907
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #675 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4