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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #34 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 1541
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 234 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #47 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #248 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #132 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 521 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #98 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 139 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #19 / 56
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 640 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #124 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 376 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #99 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 800 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #129 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 329 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #87 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #173 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 411 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #96 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

Solve the Sokoban - 160 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #39 / 70
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 315 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: #9 / 382
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 770 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #130 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1771 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #313 / 467
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 924 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: #161 / 612
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 590 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #86 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 568 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #147 / 371
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 494 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #101 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 446 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #118 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 413 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #85 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 83 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #33 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #444 / 488
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 468 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #196 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 102 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 66
Position: #29 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 222
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 180 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #55 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1350 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #312 / 521
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #46 / 483
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 487 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 52
Position: #146 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #141 / 347
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 710 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 49
Position: #175 / 253
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2979 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 35
Position: #573 / 663
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 901 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 47
Position: #234 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2160 / 3410
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6014 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 47
Position: #1112 / 1481
Number of attempts: 1