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: #77 / 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: #134 / 1619
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 19
- Position: #28 / 180
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 34
- Position: #143 / 166
- 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: #30 / 145
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 882 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #148 / 220
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #110 / 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: #229 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #18 / 87
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 22
- Position: #36 / 176
- Number of attempts: 10
Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 110
- Position: #26 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 30
- Position: #15 / 112
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 7
- Position: #59 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #72 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #46 / 343
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #14 / 235
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 26
- Position: #34 / 206
- Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1561 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #60 / 583
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #32 / 408
- Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #196 / 776
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
- Position: #32 / 3671
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6898 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #424 / 1689
- Number of attempts: 5