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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2082 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #108 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1115 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #109 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 357 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #88 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #582 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #749 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2008 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #113 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 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: #131 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 1
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #84 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2610 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #537 / 771
  • 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: 24
  • Position: #510 / 783
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #559 / 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: 12
  • Position: #202 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 732 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #176 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #441 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
  • Position: #299 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #442 / 538
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #306 / 351
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2492 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #931 / 1847
  • Number of attempts: 1
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