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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 1900 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #151 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1524 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #100 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 221 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #48 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 1838 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 396 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4224 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #165 / 1040
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 569 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #145 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1074 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #327 / 494
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #409 / 1489
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18478 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #737 / 3810
Number of attempts: 1

Prime Numbers - 339 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #6 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 183 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #53 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #774 / 1863
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #729 / 3022
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 641 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #257 / 370
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #437 / 1844
Number of attempts: 3

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: 13
Position: #257 / 736
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #676 / 1572
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 299 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #125 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1474 / 4140
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 572 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #98 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

Word frequency alignment - 258 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #109 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Pascal's Triangle - 34 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #9 / 15
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 393 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #93 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

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: 8
Position: #117 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 81 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #55 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #124 / 756
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #643 / 1722
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1928 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #104 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 449 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #14 / 209
Number of attempts: 4

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 252 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #19 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #60 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1792 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: 11
Position: #62 / 473
Number of attempts: 5

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: #518 / 632
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #47 / 449
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1257 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #261 / 503
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 195 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #118 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 633 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #7 / 172
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3099 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #21 / 687
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 11856 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #656 / 3469
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6219 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #168 / 1530
Number of attempts: 10