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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18377 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1331 / 3787
Number of attempts: 5

vim = 22 / 7 - 422 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #90 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

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: #124 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2215 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #274 / 728
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #722 / 1541
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11136 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2241 / 4112
Number of attempts: 2

Sierpinski's Triangle - 82 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 52
Position: #21 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 209 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #43 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 495 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #62 / 327
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1948 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: 16
Position: #416 / 571
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #259 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #149 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle puzzle - 307 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: 16
Position: #70 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

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: 32
Position: #83 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1736 / 3637
Number of attempts: 1

Counting in binary - 412 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 33
Position: #54 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2056 / 3919
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 358 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 174 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 38
Position: #21 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle and Sort - 183 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #26 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 131 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 36
Position: #34 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 160 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #27 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 70 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #22 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #133 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #10 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

Create an alphabet diamond - 76 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Best score: 40
Best player score: 56
Position: #12 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #302 / 716
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #506 / 732
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #157 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #164 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4917 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #126 / 1701
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 1891 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #346 / 622
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1290 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: 33
Position: #304 / 325
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 640 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #105 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 251 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #70 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1828 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #412 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #321 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #286 / 467
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 915 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: #282 / 609
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1194 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #398 / 486
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 963 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #169 / 326
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 554 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #101 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 522 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 33
Position: #108 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 645 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #42 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 162 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #42 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #118 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 587 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 57
Position: #69 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Get rid of html tags - 341 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #190 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1346 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #401 / 520
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 289 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #48 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1183 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #113 / 482
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 481 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #45 / 157
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1141 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: #163 / 346
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 700 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #78 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2970 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #235 / 661
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 901 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #160 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11620 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #922 / 3409
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5993 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #325 / 1478
Number of attempts: 5