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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #883 / 1605
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 41
Position: #40 / 371
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1773 / 4166
Number of attempts: 4

Readable Rubyhash - 245 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: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #46 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 346 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #86 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #72 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 149 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #32 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: 14
Position: #201 / 402
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 97
Position: #30 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 12
Position: #82 / 502
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1009 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: #70 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 288 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 62
Position: #44 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 117
Position: #30 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 372 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #54 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

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: #5 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #166 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #90 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #15 / 170
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 467 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #95 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #291 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 276 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: 40
Position: #53 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #15 / 237
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #271 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 590 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #1 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 574 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: 32
Position: #104 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: 15
Position: #107 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 40
Position: #158 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 567
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 342 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: 21
Position: #64 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #283 / 542
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #65 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 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: 24
Position: #282 / 397
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #320 / 758
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 31
Position: #86 / 321
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #734 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #398 / 1652
Number of attempts: 2

Akira Matsuda
Twitter: @a_matsuda

Rails committer. Ruby committer. amatsuda on GitHub. Creator of Kaminari. Founder of Asakusa.rb. Chief organizer of RubyKaigi. A Ruby Hero in Tokyo. 松田明