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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 374 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 51
Best player score: 56
Position: #25 / 107
Number of attempts: 6

HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 57
Position: #68 / 306
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat symbols in list - 1020 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #28 / 232
Number of attempts: 9

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1087 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #172 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1102 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #61 / 260
Number of attempts: 6

swap number pairs - 1871 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 346
Number of attempts: 6

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33124 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: #2370 / 7307
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #61 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 649 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #279 / 374
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4749 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #709 / 1574
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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: 39
Position: #6 / 361
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1127 / 4136
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 16 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #3 / 6
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 366 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 149 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 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: 14
Position: #69 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 502 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 155
Number of attempts: 5

Indentation - 481 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #10 / 166
Number of attempts: 4

Hatsuyume - 442 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 173
Number of attempts: 3

Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 98
Position: #5 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the Haiku - 272 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: 29
Position: #10 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 486 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: 6
Position: #1 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #154 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 112 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #3 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 576 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #42 / 227
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 546 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: 22
Position: #4 / 197
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #22 / 246
Number of attempts: 5

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 174 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: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #4 / 63
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat most common surnames - 612 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #29 / 192
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 634 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #11 / 173
Number of attempts: 4

Get rid of html tags - 356 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1416 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #208 / 540
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 325 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: 17
Position: #7 / 111
Number of attempts: 9

Sort and add attributes - 1250 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #254 / 505
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 524 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #82 / 164
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1220 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: 20
Position: #122 / 358
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 760 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #29 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #140 / 691
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 987 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #24 / 289
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 11896 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #684 / 3481
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6250 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #307 / 1543
Number of attempts: 5