Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 54
- Position: #348 / 364
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #34 / 205
- 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: 15
- Position: #244 / 401
- 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: #81 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 287 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 276
- Position: #76 / 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: 582
- Position: #141 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #126 / 134
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #82 / 85
- 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: #118 / 454
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #112 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 497 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #102 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 204 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 143
- Position: #75 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #37 / 512
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 46
- Position: #81 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: #18 / 232
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #27 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #5 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #270 / 338
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 31
- Position: #92 / 200
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 30
- Position: #226 / 249
- Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 368 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #38 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #380 / 737
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #981 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 9
Juan C. Muller
Twitter: @juancmuller
Software developer, cyclist, cook, racquetball player.