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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33528 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: #5726 / 7396
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4951 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1189 / 1614
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11411 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2040 / 4181
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #864 / 1261
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 320 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: #117 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 555 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #216 / 345
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #273 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #428 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 211 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: #66 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1035 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #235 / 289
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #92 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #192 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2786 / 4170
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #788 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #219 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #217 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: #485 / 582
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #564 / 696
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1619 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: #510 / 515
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #862 / 1075
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2857 / 3957
Number of attempts: 3

abcd > a b c d - 290 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #151 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 526 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #136 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #110 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 598 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 43
Position: #145 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 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: #277 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #360 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 53
Position: #744 / 751
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2979 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #631 / 773
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #481 / 657
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1041 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #334 / 412
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1376 / 1743
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #284 / 645
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 471 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #188 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 47
Position: #94 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 454 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: #158 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1926 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #405 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: #345 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1033 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 / 656
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 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: #113 / 232
Number of attempts: 5

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #108 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 489 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 39
Position: #169 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1324 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #481 / 521
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 558 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: #144 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #317 / 342
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 750 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: #202 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #190 / 551
Number of attempts: 3

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