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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 147
Position: #89 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

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: #54 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #783 / 1674
Number of attempts: 5

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: 42
Position: #108 / 398
Number of attempts: 2

Multiplication table. - 240 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 124
Position: #58 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

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: 32
Position: #67 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Before there was Farmville... - 111 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 228
Position: #31 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 33
Position: #68 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #77 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #268 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 909 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #149 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1091 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: #195 / 680
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: 40
Position: #114 / 145
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: 18
Position: #175 / 241
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #439 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #84 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 575 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #120 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #163 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Turn this csv list into queries - 278 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 134
Position: #71 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #426 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

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: 10
Position: #230 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #67 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #62 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #177 / 356
Number of attempts: 3

Linear congruential generator - 157 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 95
Position: #51 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 657 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #78 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

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: 29
Position: #84 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 844 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 19
Position: #207 / 282
Number of attempts: 1

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: 32
Position: #50 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 39
Position: #178 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 96
Position: #190 / 209
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: 23
Position: #285 / 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: 24
Position: #98 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

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: #64 / 615
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 734 entries

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

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #132 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #306 / 457
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: 41
Position: #112 / 362
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #484 / 862
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #215 / 378
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #2817 / 3902
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #637 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1