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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 250 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #42 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4887 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #824 / 1916
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #200 / 455
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: 13
Position: #10 / 773
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #302 / 712
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #21 / 4261
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 183 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #33 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #9 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 829 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #117 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 188 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #43 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 443 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #17 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 238 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #40 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #11 / 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: 23
Position: #53 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Roman numerals - 107 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #465 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #97 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 301 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #41 / 69
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: #35 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 518 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #78 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 277
Number of attempts: 2

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: 30
Position: #10 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 235 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #35 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Comparing scores - 148 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #22 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 271 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #60 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #101 / 310
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #253 / 596
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #33 / 451
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: 14
Position: #32 / 109
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #297 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #377 / 711
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1688 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: 11
Position: #253 / 526
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1374 / 3993
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 290 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #322 / 1766
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 76
Number of attempts: 5

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #25 / 145
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 875 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 467
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #73 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #112 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

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