Played Challenges
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: #77 / 386
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #134 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 453 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 / 179
- Number of attempts: 3
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 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: #141 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #29 / 143
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #145 / 215
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #107 / 500
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #229 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 287 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #17 / 84
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 456 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: #35 / 172
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 110
- Position: #24 / 95
- 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: 30
- Position: #14 / 109
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 7
- Position: #57 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #72 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #44 / 338
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #14 / 229
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 26
- Position: #32 / 200
- Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #60 / 558
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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 / 384
- Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #180 / 736
- Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 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 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #413 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 5