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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #87 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4973 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #148 / 1619
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: #150 / 379
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5068 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #675 / 1747
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 425 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 87
Position: #24 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1988 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #210 / 647
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1354 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: 21
Position: #142 / 335
Number of attempts: 1

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 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: 24
Position: #34 / 150
Number of attempts: 3

Case preserving word replacement - 454 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: #141 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 31
Position: #157 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 279 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #41 / 99
Number of attempts: 4

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: #68 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #34 / 204
Number of attempts: 4

expand a list comprehension (python) - 333 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 49
Position: #38 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 358 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 134
Number of attempts: 3

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #110 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #217 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #39 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #48 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #105 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 12
Position: #32 / 405
Number of attempts: 4

Assignment Alignment - 882 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #163 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1989 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: #114 / 513
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1045 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: #244 / 660
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 126
Position: #60 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 473 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: 33
Position: #148 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 167 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: 32
Position: #61 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 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: 15
Position: #102 / 233
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #216 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #214 / 405
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #84 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 534 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #89 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 495 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #154 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #113 / 523
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 565 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: 8
Position: #134 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 405 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #53 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #77 / 243
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #77 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #50 / 235
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat a C golf submission - 582 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 / 206
Number of attempts: 6

Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 84
Position: #163 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 26
Position: #209 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1561 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #65 / 583
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 350 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: 19
Position: #30 / 116
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1431 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #88 / 556
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 608 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 47
Position: #153 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1484 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: #37 / 408
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 964 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #76 / 310
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #276 / 776
Number of attempts: 4

Flodder-challenge - 1226 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 36
Position: #166 / 330
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #909 / 3671
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6898 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #509 / 1689
Number of attempts: 6

Xavier Nayrac
Twitter: @lkdjiin

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