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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #32 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #93 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

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: 44
Position: #206 / 364
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 221 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #71 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #69 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1013 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #76 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 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: 29
Position: #5 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat long lines - 341 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: 21
Position: #91 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #41 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 170 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 31
Position: #31 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #168 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #138 / 401
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 17
Position: #328 / 500
Number of attempts: 3

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: #168 / 643
Number of attempts: 3

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 65
Position: #47 / 84
Number of attempts: 5

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #68 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 456 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #142 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #45 / 85
Number of attempts: 6

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: #89 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #177 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #173 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #121 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 497 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #110 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #71 / 175
Number of attempts: 5

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #312 / 512
Number of attempts: 4

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: 42
Position: #61 / 109
Number of attempts: 3

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: 9
Position: #173 / 232
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #59 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 198 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #53 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 338
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 60
Position: #198 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

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: 46
Position: #186 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #114 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 187 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: 23
Best player score: 50
Position: #62 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 38
Position: #145 / 198
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #232 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #442 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 68
Position: #168 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 20
Position: #16 / 384
Number of attempts: 5

Braces or Brackets? - 884 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 51
Position: #223 / 288
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #243 / 736
Number of attempts: 9

Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #176 / 311
Number of attempts: 3

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: #803 / 3581
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #277 / 1616
Number of attempts: 6

Andrey A. Ugolnik
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