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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #191 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 860 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #386 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #385 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #163 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #745 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 6
Join 'em - 255 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #57 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #163 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #17 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 5
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #12 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 7
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #74 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 820 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: 12
  • Position: #28 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1541 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #86 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #107 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #267 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #658 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 14
  • Position: #195 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #530 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #290 / 786
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #145 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #557 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 8
Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #65 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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: 12
  • Position: #93 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 6
A Simple One - 1077 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: #496 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #359 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #170 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #379 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #222 / 610
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1451 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 3
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