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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #282 / 1630
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 43
Position: #170 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #157 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #28 / 87
Number of attempts: 7

Going underground.... - 356 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: 29
Position: #59 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1688 / 3687
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 12
Position: #316 / 518
Number of attempts: 10

quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 16
Position: #572 / 1079
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2045 / 3968
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 291 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #83 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #50 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 38
Position: #182 / 201
Number of attempts: 2

abcd > a b c d - 295 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #122 / 225
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: #133 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #155 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #43 / 169
Number of attempts: 6

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #379 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #238 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #339 / 755
Number of attempts: 3

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 40
Position: #192 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #152 / 778
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #255 / 664
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #206 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #145 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #243 / 1749
Number of attempts: 4

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #343 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #458 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #36 / 198
Number of attempts: 10

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #136 / 654
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: 15
Position: #273 / 407
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #68 / 220
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 1057 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: #361 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #423 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #100 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1359 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #167 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #187 / 345
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #473 / 593
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #410 / 573
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1575 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #382 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12935 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1212 / 3725
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7102 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 47
Position: #1271 / 1743
Number of attempts: 3