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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1550 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #932 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 44
Position: #224 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #544 / 1269
Number of attempts: 8

Cartesian product - 259 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 57
Position: #89 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #232 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1442 / 4189
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #906 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #253 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #520 / 3689
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1412 / 3969
Number of attempts: 3

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #125 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #721 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #168 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

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: #121 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 101
Position: #36 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #244 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #704 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #85 / 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: 47
Position: #138 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #70 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #105 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #334 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #219 / 336
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: 35
Position: #150 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Before there was Farmville... - 101 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 247
Position: #41 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 46
Position: #150 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 72
Position: #102 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 361 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: #102 / 135
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 34
Position: #620 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 31
Position: #63 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Getters & Setters: Java - 211 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 158
Position: #53 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

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: 21
Position: #381 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 158
Position: #56 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 18
Position: #368 / 519
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1057 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: #250 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 130
Position: #73 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 439 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #51 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #33 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 34
Position: #80 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 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: 16
Position: #134 / 235
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #221 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #223 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #76 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 550 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #69 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #160 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 143
Position: #82 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #335 / 531
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 313 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #65 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 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: #224 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #78 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #284 / 346
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 45
Position: #145 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 612 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: 30
Position: #91 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #91 / 575
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #927 / 3739
Number of attempts: 8