Played Challenges
vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #56 / 131
- 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: #1620 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 24
- Position: #192 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 45
- Position: #271 / 364
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 362 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #56 / 85
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 352 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #52 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1160 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #143 / 246
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1732 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1864 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 360 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #118 / 133
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #71 / 171
- Number of attempts: 2
Define to require - 118 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
- Best score: 62
- Best player score: 75
- Position: #16 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
- Position: #80 / 90
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #75 / 192
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor arguments into object argument - 161 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #27 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 26
- Position: #14 / 92
- Number of attempts: 4
Dehamlizing - 180 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #51 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #18 / 58
- 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: #30 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
A simple change - 442 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #64 / 189
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #89 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #39 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Inconsistent real estate paste - 184 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #28 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #385 / 736
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 227 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #57 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #101 / 225
- Number of attempts: 8
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #263 / 403
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #155 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #197 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1002 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 3
Format the output - 145 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 75
- Position: #32 / 39
- 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: 51
- Position: #154 / 185
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 212 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 95
- Position: #32 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiplication table. - 205 entries
Create a multiplication table.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #39 / 63
- 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: 16
- Position: #319 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
- Position: #126 / 331
- 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: 27
- Position: #57 / 148
- Number of attempts: 4
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 156 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #45 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #129 / 194
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #159 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
expand a list comprehension (python) - 301 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #44 / 106
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 472 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #155 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #288 / 639
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #213 / 401
- 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: 12
- Position: #118 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 287 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 116
- Position: #69 / 84
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 130
- Position: #71 / 141
- 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: 43
- Position: #68 / 109
- 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: #170 / 338
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #144 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #89 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1475 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #247 / 557
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #927 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #588 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 3
Daniel Lundin
Twitter: @danielundin
Software developer and music enthusiast. Author of animation library snabbt.js