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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1830 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4650 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1060 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #42 / 1127
  • Number of attempts: 5
Word Blender - 129 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #18 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 18
  • Position: #637 / 736
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #349 / 1572
  • Number of attempts: 1
Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #19 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2757 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries

Format the chars

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #9 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 4
unknown command - 151 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #32 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 520 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #192 / 338
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2975 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 1
vim1001 - 274 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #55 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 3
Subtraction - 177 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #53 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
Roman numerals - 68 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #19 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #440 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #138 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change name of a variable - 168 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #68 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #101 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 124 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #22 / 55
  • 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: 20
  • Position: #63 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
  • Position: #444 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #302 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 317 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: 14
  • Position: #36 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2507 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1580 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: 11
  • Position: #252 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #168 / 1057
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2124 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #142 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 1
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 76 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #38 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort by your own sum - 62 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #20 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 4
abcd > a b c d - 274 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #140 / 213
  • 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: 9
  • Position: #201 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1050 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #255 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #212 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1140 / 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: 14
  • Position: #165 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line Zipper - 449 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #200 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #129 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 685 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: 14
  • Position: #91 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 9
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