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Played Challenges

Split the words - 372 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #15 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 8
Permutations N=4 - 61 entries

Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #12 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 22
  • Position: #505 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #174 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 6
Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #42 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #33 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 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: 17
  • Position: #21 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #347 / 665
  • Number of attempts: 6
constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 108
  • Position: #40 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #22 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 287 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #27 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #39 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: 14
  • Position: #201 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 6
CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 210
  • Position: #63 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #94 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #50 / 531
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12994 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1167 / 3738
  • Number of attempts: 2
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