Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #370 / 387
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #722 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 5
Cartesian product - 221 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #34 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #73 / 96
- 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: 32
- Position: #98 / 163
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat long lines - 344 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: #45 / 131
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #94 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #136 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
- Position: #243 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #65 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #129 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #161 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #91 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 457 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #169 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 96 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #28 / 54
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #385 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 53
- Position: #99 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #189 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #210 / 338
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #171 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #510 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #589 / 737
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #236 / 311
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #2060 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Soliman Sylvain
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