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Played Challenges

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 293 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #56 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #78 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #173 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1264 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: 13
  • Position: #141 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shebangs for all - 2049 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: #90 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 7
A Simple One - 1064 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: #51 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 6
Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #19 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 4
Corey Purcell
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Ruby on Rails developer and aspiring iPhone developer.

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