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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #825 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #279 / 753
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1104 / 1624
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1529 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 49
Position: #67 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #40 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #142 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #25 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1435 / 4180
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #42 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #83 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #18 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #84 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

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: #24 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #107 / 158
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #149 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #40 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #277 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

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: 30
Position: #80 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #237 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #72 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #157 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1641 / 3683
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #413 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #38 / 41
Number of attempts: 2

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: 17
Position: #756 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1277 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #50 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 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: #132 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #233 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #443 / 754
Number of attempts: 1

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #131 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #777 / 1748
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #269 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #297 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #435 / 527
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #1176 / 3694
Number of attempts: 5