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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #5704 / 7364
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1166 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2037 / 4164
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #861 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 301 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: #113 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #216 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #267 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #425 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 190 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: #64 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #230 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 234 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: #89 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #188 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2781 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #783 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #217 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #215 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #481 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #562 / 692
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: #506 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #860 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2848 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #151 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #134 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 442 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #108 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #144 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #273 / 439
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #357 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 53
Position: #731 / 737
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #627 / 768
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #476 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #329 / 403
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1372 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #282 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #185 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabetize the directory - 283 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 47
Position: #92 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 453 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: #157 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #398 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #343 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1001 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 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: #111 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #106 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #163 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #474 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: #136 / 232
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #313 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 20
Position: #194 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #190 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

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