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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #36 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #100 / 1674
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 692 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: #67 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1048 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: 44
Position: #227 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 290 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 76
Number of attempts: 4

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #51 / 152
Number of attempts: 3

Multiplication table. - 240 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 52
Position: #21 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #72 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

formatted text to markdown - 193 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

Best score: 70
Best player score: 77
Position: #29 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #97 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 477 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 186
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 192 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #10 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 721 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 421 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #42 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 905 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #83 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

expand a list comprehension (python) - 348 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #1 / 111
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #192 / 661
Number of attempts: 5

Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 85
Position: #25 / 88
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: 12
Position: #15 / 419
Number of attempts: 7

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: #108 / 533
Number of attempts: 6

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 133
Position: #87 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #61 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

Letters are numbers - 179 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: #25 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 280 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #66 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 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: 14
Position: #16 / 241
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #188 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 543
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 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: #40 / 255
Number of attempts: 4

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #45 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #179 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 356
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat some Python - 657 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #87 / 247
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat a C golf submission - 678 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: 32
Position: #115 / 220
Number of attempts: 3

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 241 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #24 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 35
Position: #161 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #40 / 655
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 428 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: 21
Position: #77 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #53 / 615
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 1201 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #150 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #213 / 378
Number of attempts: 3

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