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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 643 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: 50
Best player score: 56
Position: #46 / 166
Number of attempts: 6

HS exam question - 1499 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 57
Position: #90 / 394
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat symbols in list - 1466 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #28 / 322
Number of attempts: 9

Poorly indented Python comments - 1160 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1522 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #172 / 476
Number of attempts: 2

Modernise code - 1333 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #61 / 307
Number of attempts: 6

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 370
Number of attempts: 6

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: #2370 / 7364
Number of attempts: 3

Prime Numbers - 342 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #8 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #61 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

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: #279 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #709 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

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: 39
Position: #6 / 364
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1127 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 24 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #3 / 8
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: #563 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 84
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 150 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

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #39 / 85
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 156
Number of attempts: 5

Indentation - 497 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #10 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 175
Number of attempts: 3

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: 98
Position: #5 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

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: 29
Position: #10 / 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: 6
Position: #1 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 52
Position: #6 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 459 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #154 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 129 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #3 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #42 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

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: 22
Position: #4 / 200
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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 / 249
Number of attempts: 5

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 187 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 / 64
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: 24
Position: #29 / 198
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #11 / 177
Number of attempts: 4

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: 16
Position: #16 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1475 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #208 / 557
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #7 / 113
Number of attempts: 9

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: #254 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

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: 34
Position: #84 / 172
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 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 / 383
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #29 / 288
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #147 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #24 / 311
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 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 / 3580
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #312 / 1614
Number of attempts: 5