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Played Challenges

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #37 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4806 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #814 / 1894
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 768 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #200 / 411
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: 13
Position: #10 / 753
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #297 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #21 / 4198
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #27 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

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: #9 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #113 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #39 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #17 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #38 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #11 / 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: 23
Position: #51 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Roman numerals - 81 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #460 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #94 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #39 / 67
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: #35 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #75 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #35 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

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: 30
Position: #9 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #31 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Comparing scores - 112 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #20 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #56 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #100 / 300
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #247 / 585
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #33 / 437
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: 14
Position: #31 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #297 / 3684
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #371 / 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: 11
Position: #246 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1357 / 3964
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #322 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 74
Number of attempts: 5

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #99 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

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