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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: #1580 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #478 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #316 / 1629
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1701 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 3
Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #149 / 208
  • 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: 63
  • Position: #127 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1982 / 3687
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 11
  • Position: #244 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: #824 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2121 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 22
  • Position: #244 / 304
  • 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: 30
  • Position: #388 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #255 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #689 / 755
  • 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: 21
  • Position: #382 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1355 / 1749
  • 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: 17
  • Position: #464 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #152 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #589 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #302 / 410
  • 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: 32
  • Position: #597 / 800
  • 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: 18
  • Position: #2621 / 3723
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7099 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1041 / 1741
  • Number of attempts: 2
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