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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #140 / 370
Number of attempts: 14

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #593 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 22
Position: #51 / 7364
Number of attempts: 4

Prime Numbers - 344 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 88
Position: #75 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #61 / 131
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #12 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

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: #141 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #33 / 744
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #751 / 1585
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #588 / 695
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1954 / 4164
Number of attempts: 8

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #142 / 211
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: 43
Position: #151 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #574 / 1258
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #42 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 171
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #975 / 2101
Number of attempts: 4

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 83
Position: #13 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 210 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 37
Position: #50 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #148 / 266
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #13 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 362 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 34
Position: #47 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #63 / 1186
Number of attempts: 16

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #82 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #110 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #101 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 996 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #113 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2468 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #34 / 61
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #473 / 1129
Number of attempts: 9

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #157 / 351
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #54 / 143
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #128 / 293
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #275 / 578
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 710 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #78 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #254 / 431
Number of attempts: 6

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 101
Number of attempts: 13

Piphilology - 131 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 29
Best player score: 34
Position: #15 / 51
Number of attempts: 6

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #113 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 356 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #26 / 108
Number of attempts: 11

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1616 / 3666
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #248 / 692
Number of attempts: 6

Counting in binary - 477 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #47 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1594 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #202 / 511
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #48 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 191 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #40 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #108 / 3946
Number of attempts: 6

Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #206 / 302
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #84 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 274 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #21 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 66 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 150 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #50 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 250 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #52 / 89
Number of attempts: 4

Block Fun 1 - 189 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 73
Number of attempts: 6

Groups magic - 150 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #22 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 71 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #17 / 28
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 58 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 218
Number of attempts: 3

Python: Lots of function arguments - 102 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

Readable Rubyhash - 244 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: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #25 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 96 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #20 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 180 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 39
Position: #26 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Checkerboard case pattern - 148 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #19 / 58
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle and Sort - 209 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #34 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Printable ASCII characters - 124 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #19 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 442 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 77 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 66
Position: #22 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 134 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #18 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #50 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

Presidential Sorting - 48 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 46
Position: #9 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 63 entries

Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #7 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

Extract text from xml - 109 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #19 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #19 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #31 / 163
Number of attempts: 13

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #158 / 439
Number of attempts: 5

Chucking wood - 106 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

Best score: 51
Best player score: 54
Position: #9 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #60 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 185 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 72
Number of attempts: 7

maximun and minimun - 58 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 62
Position: #12 / 24
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #26 / 76
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #159 / 473
Number of attempts: 14

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #143 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #17 / 111
Number of attempts: 4

Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #19 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the chessboard - 78 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 30
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #273 / 737
Number of attempts: 7

Make the circuit grid! - 87 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #32 / 48
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #71 / 225
Number of attempts: 10

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #253 / 768
Number of attempts: 9

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #226 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #174 / 403
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #40 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #163 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #136 / 1736
Number of attempts: 7

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #163 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #74 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #111 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Multiplication table. - 205 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 74
Position: #33 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #118 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #236 / 640
Number of attempts: 5

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #54 / 210
Number of attempts: 8

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #108 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabetize the directory - 283 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #55 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #70 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #147 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 363 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #59 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #85 / 194
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: 30
Position: #70 / 163
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 38
Position: #97 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #122 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

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: 40
Position: #41 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #59 / 143
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #238 / 639
Number of attempts: 6

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: #150 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

Assignment Alignment - 832 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #85 / 215
Number of attempts: 8

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: 12
Position: #125 / 500
Number of attempts: 11

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: #291 / 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: 36
Position: #86 / 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: 28
Position: #106 / 172
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: #277 / 454
Number of attempts: 4

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #237 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #88 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 497 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 168
Number of attempts: 7

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #45 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Turn this csv list into queries - 204 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 128
Position: #58 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #133 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

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: 37
Position: #33 / 109
Number of attempts: 4

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: 7
Position: #74 / 232
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 132
Number of attempts: 13

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 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: 17
Position: #173 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #82 / 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: 28
Position: #57 / 200
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #51 / 198
Number of attempts: 5

Get rid of html tags - 368 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #207 / 217
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: 22
Position: #117 / 558
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 341 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: 22
Position: #79 / 113
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: 33
Position: #117 / 529
Number of attempts: 4

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: 30
Position: #26 / 172
Number of attempts: 6

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: 21
Position: #188 / 384
Number of attempts: 11

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: 37
Position: #54 / 288
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #196 / 736
Number of attempts: 13

Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 32
Position: #90 / 311
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #193 / 3581
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 39
Position: #676 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

A simple change - 442 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Marcin Szamotulski
Twitter: @me_coot

Functional programmer, mathematician.

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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries

Prime Numbers - 344 entries

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

That hyphen - 2556 entries

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

Vim's not included features - 210 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Change your calendar - 362 entries

Collect List - 4264 entries

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

camel riding - 769 entries

readability - 312 entries

Fix the XML - 996 entries

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Subtraction - 178 entries

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Count both ways - 1001 entries

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Don't know what this is - 1978 entries

Two become one - 710 entries

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Piphilology - 131 entries

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Split the words - 356 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Counting in binary - 477 entries

Letter case trickery - 1594 entries

quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries

Top X - 191 entries

Words in parens - 12858 entries

Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

Word frequency alignment - 274 entries

fib.c cleanup - 66 entries

REDRUM - 150 entries

Enumerate words - 250 entries

Block Fun 1 - 189 entries

Groups magic - 150 entries

Sort by your own sum - 71 entries

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 58 entries

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

Python: Lots of function arguments - 102 entries

Readable Rubyhash - 244 entries

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 96 entries

Dehamlizing - 180 entries

Checkerboard case pattern - 148 entries

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Shuffle and Sort - 209 entries

Printable ASCII characters - 124 entries

A simple change - 442 entries

Add links to an existing HTML table - 77 entries

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 134 entries

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 entries

Presidential Sorting - 48 entries

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 63 entries

Extract text from xml - 109 entries

The name of the game - 650 entries

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Chucking wood - 106 entries