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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #38 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 7
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #402 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 1
Return the cow - 81 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #16 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cartesian product - 277 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #71 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #35 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 3
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 238 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #49 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Getters & Setters: Java - 219 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

  • Best score: 89
  • Best player score: 114
  • Position: #30 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 5
CSV to JSON - 178 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 93
  • Position: #28 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2103 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #397 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 280 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #83 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 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: 18
  • Position: #165 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 7
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