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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 59
Position: #111 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #105 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #206 / 708
Number of attempts: 5

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #913 / 7420
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #714 / 1268
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #480 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #112 / 1876
Number of attempts: 3

From argument to object - 1508 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #370 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #191 / 703
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #222 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #485 / 1624
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #293 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2423 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 588
Number of attempts: 3

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #75 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #133 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #98 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 88 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #27 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #240 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #87 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 77
Number of attempts: 7

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #222 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #70 / 184
Number of attempts: 8

Line under headers - 2044 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #339 / 503
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #50 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #324 / 448
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #113 / 269
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #302 / 1190
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #227 / 444
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2691 / 4180
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #979 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #58 / 300
Number of attempts: 11

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #189 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2322 / 3683
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1673 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

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: 28
Position: #299 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 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: 12
Position: #81 / 406
Number of attempts: 6

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: 7
Position: #98 / 246
Number of attempts: 3