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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #5789 / 7509
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1231 / 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: #2054 / 4253
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #877 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 345 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #121 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #216 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #275 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #437 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 223 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 29
Position: #67 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #237 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 254 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #93 / 98
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: 14
Position: #196 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2819 / 4222
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #794 / 1145
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #222 / 359
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #219 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #491 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #574 / 709
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1664 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: 28
Position: #518 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #868 / 1091
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2879 / 3988
Number of attempts: 3

abcd > a b c d - 300 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #151 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #139 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 481 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #113 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #153 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #281 / 456
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #369 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 53
Position: #768 / 776
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #640 / 787
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #497 / 681
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #343 / 425
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1391 / 1761
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: #292 / 657
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #191 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabetize the directory - 327 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 47
Position: #96 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 476 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #162 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #413 / 659
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 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: 18
Position: #355 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1079 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: #403 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 652 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #115 / 239
Number of attempts: 5

Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #114 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 564 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #180 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #497 / 541
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 600 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #153 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1089 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #326 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 832 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 20
Position: #214 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #190 / 611
Number of attempts: 3

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