Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #364 / 386
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1050 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: 42
- Position: #73 / 364
- Number of attempts: 1
Complete the hex array data - 195 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #61 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1001 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
- Position: #43 / 643
- Number of attempts: 2
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 143
- Position: #101 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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
- Position: #1 / 230
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #82 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #84 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #280 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: 10
- Position: #198 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #230 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #288 / 338
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 17
- Position: #151 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #162 / 198
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #403 / 558
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #387 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2752 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Tom Adams
Twitter: @holizz
WordPress wrangler at @dextrousweb. Resident git, vim, and general commandline guru. In love with @jerricurrl.