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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #114 / 131
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #804 / 1863
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #566 / 736
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1240 / 1572
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 921 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 46
Position: #292 / 359
Number of attempts: 5

Create Leading Zeros - 205 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 44
Position: #56 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 577 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #157 / 239
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 520 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #187 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #733 / 1120
Number of attempts: 7

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 239 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #84 / 113
Number of attempts: 3

Change name of a variable - 168 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: #45 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 434 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #105 / 153
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: 14
Position: #287 / 574
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #97 / 426
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1151 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #184 / 244
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffle puzzle - 317 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: 27
Position: #100 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 315 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 41
Position: #109 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #2935 / 3646
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1580 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: 13
Position: #386 / 506
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: 17
Position: #823 / 1057
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2592 / 3930
Number of attempts: 4

Pairs of numbers - 347 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 61
Position: #122 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #137 / 223
Number of attempts: 6

Minimalist Limerick - 510 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 44
Position: #150 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 576 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 38
Position: #178 / 187
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 638 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #177 / 350
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 569 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #146 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1531 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #354 / 431
Number of attempts: 5

Stairs Indenting - 440 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #117 / 189
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1050 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #385 / 429
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #687 / 724
Number of attempts: 4

Exchanging Quotes - 800 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #152 / 220
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #525 / 756
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #458 / 634
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #361 / 394
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 668 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: 17
Position: #217 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #818 / 1722
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 538 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #232 / 346
Number of attempts: 3

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 952 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 71
Position: #177 / 183
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #582 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1324 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #286 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #554 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1194 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: 19
Position: #345 / 392
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1804 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: 20
Position: #396 / 475
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 971 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: #388 / 632
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1259 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #347 / 504
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #295 / 335
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1409 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #377 / 536
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1245 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #357 / 503
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1203 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: 25
Position: #298 / 355
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 56
Position: #667 / 689
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2456 / 3471
Number of attempts: 6