Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #313 / 398
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #18 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 48
- Position: #320 / 371
- 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: 17
- Position: #52 / 133
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #89 / 205
- 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: 23
- Position: #19 / 145
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 352 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #50 / 207
- 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: #203 / 402
- 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: #88 / 502
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #60 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
- Position: #74 / 230
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #407 / 455
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #162 / 404
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #57 / 159
- Number of attempts: 5
Indentation - 499 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #58 / 170
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 467 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #107 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 205 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 122
- Position: #47 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 43
- Position: #68 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: #7 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #165 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 199 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #40 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #163 / 340
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 43
- Position: #178 / 203
- 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: 58
- Position: #189 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 378 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #30 / 222
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1502 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1 / 567
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #398 / 542
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 35
- Position: #90 / 175
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
- Position: #245 / 397
- Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #203 / 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: #719 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 4
Contributed Challenges
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Aaron Bull Schaefer
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