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Played Challenges

C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #14 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mr. Hacker - 90 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #28 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #6 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4572 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #782 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 2
Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #27 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #311 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 6
xrandr outputs and dashes - 725 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #133 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Capitalize the Names - 412 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #71 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #5 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 8
C# data class to F# record - 79 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

  • Best score: 63
  • Best player score: 93
  • Position: #17 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 9
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #92 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33843 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3707 / 7469
  • Number of attempts: 9
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #81 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 8
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #8 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 14
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #39 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4656 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #510 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6365 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #513 / 1554
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18830 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2280 / 3888
  • Number of attempts: 5
Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #14 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #140 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules (ver.2) - 241 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #47 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 3
Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #208 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4829 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1822 / 1902
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10913 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1881 / 3083
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7961 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #929 / 1890
  • Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #581 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 101 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #58 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #165 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 18
Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #349 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 979 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #71 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 11
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1006 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1818 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 4
Alphabet soup - 434 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #23 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 8

Contributed Challenges

C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

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