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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 402
Position: #135 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 18
Position: #1885 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #747 / 753
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1360 / 1624
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 39
Position: #700 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 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: 54
Position: #364 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 46
Position: #63 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #34 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #438 / 1137
Number of attempts: 13

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #329 / 354
Number of attempts: 3

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #58 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #112 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 179 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: #67 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #148 / 158
Number of attempts: 3

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 57
Position: #143 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #64 / 103
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #191 / 300
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 17
Position: #545 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 37
Position: #173 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #421 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle puzzle - 346 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: 16
Position: #80 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #458 / 3684
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #527 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 117
Number of attempts: 21

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 19
Position: #995 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #3557 / 3964
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 60
Position: #125 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 290 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: 158
Position: #161 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #51 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #12 / 201
Number of attempts: 10

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #207 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #133 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 57
Position: #21 / 31
Number of attempts: 8

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 193 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 98
Position: #106 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 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: 11
Position: #141 / 192
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #313 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the circuit grid! - 105 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 71
Position: #19 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #151 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 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: #210 / 446
Number of attempts: 7

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 32
Position: #417 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 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: #47 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #92 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Inconsistent real estate paste - 216 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 206
Position: #57 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 57
Position: #31 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 61
Position: #749 / 754
Number of attempts: 1

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 88
Position: #49 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 89
Position: #71 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #747 / 777
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #482 / 663
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #333 / 419
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #151 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: 17
Position: #224 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #833 / 1748
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #236 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 61
Position: #178 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #170 / 650
Number of attempts: 12

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 116
Position: #100 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 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: 45
Position: #120 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #39 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #153 / 198
Number of attempts: 5

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #81 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 50
Position: #173 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #201 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1999 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: 25
Position: #481 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1050 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: #391 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #439 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #289 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 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: 9
Position: #202 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #182 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #334 / 344
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #155 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 604 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: 33
Position: #121 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 55
Position: #194 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 725 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 132
Position: #182 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 398 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 32
Position: #225 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #532 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1454 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 40
Position: #521 / 565
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1508 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: 25
Position: #340 / 413
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 27
Position: #3263 / 3696
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6984 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 46
Position: #1202 / 1708
Number of attempts: 2

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