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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 303 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 73
Position: #58 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Word Blender - 128 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: 30
Position: #5 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 521 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #9 / 334
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #105 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 869 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #33 / 333
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4863 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #83 / 1688
Number of attempts: 3

Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 77
Position: #7 / 21
Number of attempts: 4

Happy New Year! - 129 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #30 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 218 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #45 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 199 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Generate English Alphabets - 427 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 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: 23
Position: #14 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Getters & Setters: Java - 189 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 94
Position: #9 / 53
Number of attempts: 8

Solve the Sokoban - 158 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #13 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

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: #17 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1113 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #122 / 372
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1719 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: 13
Position: #150 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 870 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: #115 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 242 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 280 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 107
Best player score: 116
Position: #25 / 131
Number of attempts: 3

Letters are numbers - 127 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #15 / 66
Number of attempts: 5

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 206 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #11 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 compat - 566 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #10 / 216
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 739 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #127 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #115 / 357
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 190 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 100
Position: #5 / 90
Number of attempts: 5

Dumb to smart - 82 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #11 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #64 / 477
Number of attempts: 1

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: #28 / 216
Number of attempts: 2

Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 52
Position: #5 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 405 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 176 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #33 / 132
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: #148 / 313
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 108 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #9 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 542 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #49 / 171
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 548 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 90
Position: #139 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1282 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #16 / 495
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 281 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #16 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1115 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #32 / 458
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 447 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #49 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1045 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #217 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 829 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 35
Position: #100 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5804 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 37
Position: #449 / 1438
Number of attempts: 1