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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: #835 / 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: 14
Position: #289 / 773
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1139 / 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: #1542 / 4258
Number of attempts: 2

Create Leading Zeros - 277 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 49
Position: #71 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 183 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #46 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #142 / 357
Number of attempts: 1

Square numbers - 142 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #28 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1457 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #42 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 331 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #85 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 204 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #88 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

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: #24 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 485 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #111 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #153 / 277
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 164 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #44 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #284 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

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: 30
Position: #82 / 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: #241 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 390 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #75 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #161 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle puzzle - 379 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #64 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1659 / 3717
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #419 / 711
Number of attempts: 1

Ninjas Leaderboard - 115 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #43 / 46
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #765 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1293 / 3991
Number of attempts: 3

Groups magic - 173 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #52 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #137 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #239 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #454 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Make the circuit grid! - 106 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 51
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #133 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #787 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #275 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #302 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #446 / 543
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: #1220 / 3907
Number of attempts: 5