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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #34 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 1624
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #51 / 75
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: #270 / 419
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: 15
Position: #9 / 273
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: 8
Position: #153 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #98 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #128 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #103 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #134 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 358 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #91 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #179 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 439 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #101 / 147
Number of attempts: 4

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #42 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 209
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: #9 / 406
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #138 / 220
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: 17
Position: #336 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

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: #161 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 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: 15
Position: #92 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #175 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #106 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 542 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #129 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 532 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #103 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 99 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #38 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #478 / 527
Number of attempts: 3

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: 10
Position: #219 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 66
Position: #34 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 245
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #55 / 146
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: 25
Position: #361 / 588
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #46 / 563
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 625 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 52
Position: #170 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 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: 21
Position: #173 / 412
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 49
Position: #212 / 315
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 35
Position: #669 / 787
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 47
Position: #288 / 335
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2339 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 47
Position: #1231 / 1706
Number of attempts: 1