Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #388 / 406
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #744 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 5
Cartesian product - 248 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #36 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #74 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: 32
- Position: #100 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat long lines - 358 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: #47 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #94 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #139 / 220
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1991 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: 15
- Position: #248 / 514
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1045 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: #65 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #133 / 138
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #162 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #94 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 495 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #176 / 182
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 97 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #29 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #393 / 523
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 53
- Position: #102 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #197 / 243
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #214 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 696 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #177 / 207
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1433 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #537 / 557
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #620 / 776
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1233 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #250 / 331
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2122 / 3671
- Number of attempts: 2
Soliman Sylvain
Twitter: @sylvain_soliman
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