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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #106 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #173 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #39 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #48 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3609 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 1
Draw the Go board - 149 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #34 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 1
It's a factor - 104 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 127
  • Position: #37 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #75 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #155 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

  • Best score: 62
  • Best player score: 259
  • Position: #49 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 1
Circle in a square - 152 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 98
  • Position: #52 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #163 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 295 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #82 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #119 / 193
  • 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: 47
  • Position: #465 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #183 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #125 / 206
  • 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: 33
  • Position: #121 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #138 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #111 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #88 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #463 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #143 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #178 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1575 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #385 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1043 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #259 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3727 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #512 / 800
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1309 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #299 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12929 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2399 / 3723
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7099 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #969 / 1741
  • Number of attempts: 2
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