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Played Challenges

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 81
Position: #51 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #67 / 1268
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #159 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #15 / 753
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #288 / 1624
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #104 / 701
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #24 / 4197
Number of attempts: 7

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #434 / 1264
Number of attempts: 9

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #66 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #634 / 2128
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #50 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #48 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #151 / 1190
Number of attempts: 8

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #108 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 444
Number of attempts: 5

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #30 / 239
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 83
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 247
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #25 / 4180
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #23 / 354
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #10 / 300
Number of attempts: 6

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: 11
Position: #57 / 585
Number of attempts: 6

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: 28
Position: #50 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #249 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Piphilology - 144 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 28
Best player score: 49
Position: #52 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #113 / 250
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: 28
Position: #40 / 128
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 3683
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #199 / 702
Number of attempts: 11

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: #91 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #112 / 1078
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #277 / 3963
Number of attempts: 7

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: #53 / 304
Number of attempts: 6

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #91 / 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: #25 / 754
Number of attempts: 7

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #258 / 663
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #797 / 1748
Number of attempts: 3

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: #1219 / 3694
Number of attempts: 3

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: #88 / 1706
Number of attempts: 8

Strabs
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