Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 764 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #336 / 409
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1139 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 659 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
- Position: #93 / 214
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 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: 45
- Position: #269 / 380
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 473 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #129 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 366 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #163 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1998 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: 14
- Position: #211 / 515
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1050 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: #9 / 664
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 429 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #73 / 139
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 473 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #93 / 176
- Number of attempts: 3
Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #131 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1344 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #41 / 526
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 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
- Position: #25 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #38 / 245
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #157 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 609 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #101 / 236
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 604 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: 33
- Position: #118 / 208
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #107 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 398 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #57 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 360 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: 22
- Position: #77 / 117
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1498 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: 21
- Position: #164 / 411
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12787 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #754 / 3688
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6968 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #1394 / 1702
- Number of attempts: 2