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Played Challenges

CSV to MD format - 329 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 81
Position: #42 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4484 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #67 / 1245
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4647 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #159 / 1861
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2261 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #15 / 735
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4730 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #288 / 1565
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2520 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #104 / 688
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11284 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #24 / 4140
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5484 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #420 / 1241
Number of attempts: 9

Add to end of each line... kinda - 307 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #66 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7614 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #616 / 2063
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #50 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #48 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4207 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #151 / 1174
Number of attempts: 8

swap or reverse - 105 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #105 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 436
Number of attempts: 5

Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #29 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting database text output - 213 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 80
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 772 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: #38 / 237
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15822 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #25 / 4129
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3135 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 1118
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 982 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #23 / 346
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #10 / 292
Number of attempts: 6

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: 11
Position: #57 / 574
Number of attempts: 6

Two become one - 706 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #49 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 849 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #243 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

Piphilology - 125 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 29
Best player score: 49
Position: #50 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1151 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #111 / 244
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: 28
Position: #35 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10562 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 3646
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #192 / 686
Number of attempts: 11

Letter case trickery - 1563 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: 10
Position: #87 / 503
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #112 / 1057
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 12786 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #269 / 3928
Number of attempts: 7

Hole-in-one - 985 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 300
Number of attempts: 6

fib.c cleanup - 65 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1973 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #89 / 468
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2386 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 723
Number of attempts: 7

Switch function arguments - 1996 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #247 / 632
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4978 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #786 / 1716
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 11811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1168 / 3459
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6189 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #87 / 1524
Number of attempts: 8

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