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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 870 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #361 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #18 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1052 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: #347 / 400
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 388 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: #56 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #93 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 473 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #19 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1313 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: #212 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #98 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1093 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 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 664 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: #79 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #417 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 709 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #172 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 568 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #63 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 5
Indentation - 575 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #63 / 183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 582 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #119 / 194
  • Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 278 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 122
  • Position: #50 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 331 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: #72 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 607 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 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 533 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #176 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #40 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1109 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #172 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 681 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: #195 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #220 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #45 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1598 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #456 / 617
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 739 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #105 / 203
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1754 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #277 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1501 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #238 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13644 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #783 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1754 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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contributed 1 challenges