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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #258 / 1625
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #21 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #100 / 347
  • 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: 30
  • Position: #69 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #17 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #66 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #66 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #153 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: #24 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 6
Assign list - 192 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #11 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 17
  • Position: #44 / 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: #36 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #40 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #14 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #14 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #148 / 778
  • 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: #76 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #211 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #45 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3677 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #96 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7008 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #890 / 1712
  • Number of attempts: 3
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