Played Challenges
Wget failed to download redirections - 169 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: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 370 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11062 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15602 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10503 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12671 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Sierpinski's Triangle - 79 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 1
Create an alphabet diamond - 76 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
- Best score: 40
- Best player score: 58
- Number of attempts: 3
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 141 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 3
Inconsistent real estate paste - 152 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 161 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a pandoc compatible table - 158 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 1918 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Calculate the table totals - 107 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove noise from HTTP log - 631 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: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 499 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 899 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 42
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 779 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and double space - 424 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 515 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 2
un-C-escape string - 53 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2739 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 6
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 787 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 7
constructor - 165 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 82
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4859 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Replacing some words - 405 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1842 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1260 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: 29
- Number of attempts: 3
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 440 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 8
Alphabetize the directory - 261 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 403 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 129 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Interweave two blocks of text - 530 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 395 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 4
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 367 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 722 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 6
Before there was Farmville... - 92 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 162
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 206 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
Prime Numbers - 302 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Number of attempts: 10
A Simple One - 870 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 242 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 7
Table Reshuffle - 326 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the Haiku - 249 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 5
Indentation - 420 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 7
Linear congruential generator - 104 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 368 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 5
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 405 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 190 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 100
- Number of attempts: 5
Context insensitive completion 0 - 461 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 566 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 456 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 8
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 860 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 40
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat some Python - 534 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat a C golf submission - 492 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse characters in a line - 602 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 157 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Deleting folded text - 279 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Get rid of html tags - 319 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 540 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 548 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 49
- Number of attempts: 6
Change the content of a string - 1270 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 447 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 521 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1042 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 644 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 829 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2761 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 11327 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5779 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 8
Rod Knowlton
Twitter: @codelahoma
Sysadmin turned coder. That's not a bad thing, is it? I also crack wise on non-code things as @toldorknown