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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #329 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #3 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18478 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #3712 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2086 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7620 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #869 / 2067
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting a glossary - 116 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #25 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #124 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #12 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 3
Align commas - 1046 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #166 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #179 / 1176
  • Number of attempts: 8
Condensed Cases - 773 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: 16
  • Position: #180 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2475 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #25 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 7
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #45 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2069 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1501 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #181 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #123 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #394 / 1722
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6219 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #358 / 1530
  • Number of attempts: 4
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