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Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4479 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #676 / 1097
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #43 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #578 / 1876
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #126 / 230
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #224 / 1624
Number of attempts: 6

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 42
Position: #20 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #25 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Return the cow - 75 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 55
Position: #7 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Best score: 51
Best player score: 55
Position: #8 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #23 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #11 / 62
Number of attempts: 6

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #13 / 67
Number of attempts: 4

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #24 / 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: #60 / 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: 13
Position: #9 / 158
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #9 / 145
Number of attempts: 5

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #14 / 58
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: 28
Position: #6 / 64
Number of attempts: 5

Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #6 / 42
Number of attempts: 5

Comparing scores - 112 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 35
Number of attempts: 5

Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #11 / 19
Number of attempts: 4

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #41 / 117
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #46 / 518
Number of attempts: 3

Untangle my tail, please! - 60 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #15 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #517 / 1078
Number of attempts: 3

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #10 / 19
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 212 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #14 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Change The Perspective - 38 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #8 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

Number an outline - 280 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 60
Position: #50 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #48 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #18 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

Assign list - 192 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #14 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

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: 51
Position: #6 / 51
Number of attempts: 6

paste indent correction - JS - 112 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #17 / 304
Number of attempts: 6

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #28 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #40 / 174
Number of attempts: 7

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: 23
Position: #6 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #116 / 360
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: 8
Position: #27 / 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: 20
Position: #10 / 480
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #6 / 754
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #139 / 777
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #60 / 663
Number of attempts: 4

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: #68 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #165 / 1748
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #37 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

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: 11
Position: #13 / 516
Number of attempts: 11

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #147 / 527
Number of attempts: 3

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: #159 / 563
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #91 / 787
Number of attempts: 9

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: 13
Position: #157 / 3694
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #62 / 1706
Number of attempts: 8