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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #72 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #797 / 1631
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 245 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #36 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #155 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #107 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Split the words - 372 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 40
Position: #76 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #286 / 706
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #548 / 1085
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: 30
Position: #47 / 71
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: 58
Position: #47 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1267 / 3971
Number of attempts: 5

Pairs of numbers - 364 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: 36
Position: #70 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 193 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #29 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: 19
Position: #168 / 305
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #99 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #117 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #153 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #147 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 638 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #133 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1617 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: #39 / 448
Number of attempts: 3

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: 25
Position: #167 / 480
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 448
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2574 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #285 / 761
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #130 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #459 / 779
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #250 / 669
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #322 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: 16
Position: #175 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5089 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1334 / 1751
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #159 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1360 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: 23
Position: #206 / 337
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #134 / 655
Number of attempts: 6

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: 13
Position: #157 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2049 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: 15
Position: #274 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #159 / 534
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1675 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #297 / 616
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1516 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #361 / 586
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 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: 24
Position: #319 / 435
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #319 / 816
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13151 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1172 / 3779
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7261 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 35
Position: #364 / 1792
Number of attempts: 5