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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #5779 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1211 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2050 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #875 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 326 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: #118 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #216 / 352
  • 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 - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #428 / 446
  • 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 - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #236 / 290
  • 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 - 432 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #193 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2810 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #790 / 1140
  • 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 - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #217 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #487 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #572 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #515 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #866 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2873 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #151 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #138 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 476 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #111 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #152 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 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: #278 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #364 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2615 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #764 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #637 / 783
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #493 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #340 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1386 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #289 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #190 / 216
  • 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 - 463 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: #160 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #411 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: #352 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1070 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 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 642 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: #114 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 556 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #113 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 556 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #178 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #495 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 594 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: #151 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #324 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 806 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: #210 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #190 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 3
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