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Played Challenges

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 431 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 49
Position: #67 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Plotting some variables in python - 1661 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 159
Position: #345 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

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: 25
Position: #3272 / 7420
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #845 / 1537
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #224 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #815 / 1893
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1313 / 3063
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #488 / 753
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #548 / 701
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: #2583 / 4197
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #347 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #536 / 1264
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #111 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2045 / 4180
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #37 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 76 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #13 / 27
Number of attempts: 4

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #63 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Roman numerals - 81 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #23 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #878 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #330 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #91 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

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: #25 / 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: 18
Position: #143 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #201 / 271
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #41 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #81 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #166 / 300
Number of attempts: 5

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: 14
Position: #312 / 585
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #225 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 44
Position: #93 / 102
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #178 / 250
Number of attempts: 5

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: 15
Position: #53 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 356 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 39
Position: #109 / 128
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1873 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

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: 17
Position: #820 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2107 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #299 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 267 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: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #78 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #118 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #276 / 446
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: 39
Position: #453 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #425 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #627 / 754
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 40
Position: #193 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #465 / 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: #477 / 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: 14
Position: #378 / 419
Number of attempts: 4

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: #149 / 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: 16
Position: #177 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1351 / 1748
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #470 / 650
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: 31
Position: #76 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

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: 25
Position: #87 / 147
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #461 / 652
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: 19
Position: #396 / 516
Number of attempts: 5

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: #378 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 473 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: 29
Position: #116 / 176
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: #111 / 234
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: #119 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #430 / 563
Number of attempts: 4

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: 44
Position: #151 / 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: 33
Position: #616 / 787
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #1364 / 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: 36
Position: #458 / 1706
Number of attempts: 4

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