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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 169 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #55 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4600 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #226 / 1839
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4567 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #392 / 1513
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2464 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #71 / 674
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11076 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1848 / 4089
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5395 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #363 / 1219
Number of attempts: 8

Restore order to the alphabet - 162 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #35 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 734 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #103 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 98 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1543 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #158 / 422
Number of attempts: 4

remove all lines in first part - 162 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII box - 304 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #64 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 429 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #87 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 731 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: 13
Position: #78 / 225
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15647 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1552 / 4096
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3077 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #551 / 1099
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 674 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #73 / 252
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 1919 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: 13
Position: #245 / 563
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10509 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #749 / 3627
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 2996 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: 3
Best player score: 15
Position: #430 / 1037
Number of attempts: 4

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 58 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #9 / 26
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12678 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #549 / 3904
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 450 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #85 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1450 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: #203 / 412
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 387 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #116 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 979 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #263 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2310 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #441 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 1945 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 12
Position: #261 / 618
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 923 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #213 / 375
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: 8
Position: #192 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4863 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #361 / 1688
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 1852 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #163 / 611
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 590 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #119 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 778 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #51 / 193
Number of attempts: 7

Numbering a List - 1775 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #77 / 610
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 739 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #389 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 531 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #275 / 357
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 461 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #90 / 216
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 504 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: 28
Position: #56 / 187
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 615 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: 15
Position: #122 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 546 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #145 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 463 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #111 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11381 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2383 / 3344
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5827 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #295 / 1442
Number of attempts: 4

Skúli Jóhannsson
Twitter: @skulibj

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