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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 185 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: #36 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #810 / 1887
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #200 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 750
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #296 / 698
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #21 / 4174
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 121 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #26 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #9 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 794 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: #112 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 156 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #38 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #17 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 194 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #37 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 233 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #11 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 284 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: #50 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Roman numerals - 69 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #16 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #458 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #93 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 255 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: #38 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 173 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 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 469 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #74 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #34 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 126 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: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #9 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 199 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: #31 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Comparing scores - 95 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: #19 / 34
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 235 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #100 / 298
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #246 / 581
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #33 / 436
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle puzzle - 331 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: #29 / 103
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #297 / 3677
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3454 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #367 / 695
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1598 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: #244 / 514
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1350 / 3950
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 245 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #28 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #322 / 1742
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 165 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 73
Number of attempts: 5

Table Reshuffle - 372 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #23 / 135
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 455
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 366 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #67 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #95 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

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