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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #871 / 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: 41
Position: #38 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1771 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

Readable Rubyhash - 244 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: #45 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 341 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: #84 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #71 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 148 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: #31 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #200 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to JSON - 172 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 97
Position: #29 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1912 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 / 500
Number of attempts: 2

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: #70 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 62
Position: #43 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

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: 117
Position: #29 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #53 / 134
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 - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #165 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 497 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #14 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #92 / 175
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: #287 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 275 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: #52 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 459 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #15 / 232
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #269 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #1 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 559 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: #101 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #103 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 40
Position: #155 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1475 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 557
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 341 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: #63 / 113
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: 34
Position: #275 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 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 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 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: #273 / 383
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #307 / 736
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 31
Position: #82 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #720 / 3580
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 36
Position: #391 / 1614
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