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Played Challenges

Interweave two blocks of text - 530 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #167 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 4
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 325 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #99 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1945 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #576 / 618
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 641 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: 16
  • Position: #136 / 255
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 511 entries

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

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #207 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 405 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #75 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 3
formatted text to markdown - 175 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

  • Best score: 70
  • Best player score: 81
  • Position: #46 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 403 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #195 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 440 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #114 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 218 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #83 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 203 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #42 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 3
HTML to Haml - 778 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #133 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 275 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #67 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 427 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #64 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 398 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #112 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1777 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #416 / 611
  • Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 304 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #46 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1725 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: #305 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 875 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: #126 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 206 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #59 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 739 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #140 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #289 / 477
  • Number of attempts: 5
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 405 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #40 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 3
Almost encrypted - 177 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #32 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #150 / 313
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 546 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #87 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 322 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #188 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Insert a Markdown link - 398 entries

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

James Cash
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Computer engineer that loves programming, math, science, and lifting heavy shit.

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contributed 1 challenges