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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #102 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5031 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1165 / 1638
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1007 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: #154 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #562 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1288 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #549 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 456 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: #143 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #114 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #516 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: 22
  • Position: #392 / 412
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #200 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2049 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: 24
  • Position: #469 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1067 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: #256 / 671
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 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: 19
  • Position: #196 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #225 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #229 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 552 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #81 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1386 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #340 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1075 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #174 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #111 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 789 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: #155 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 423 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #74 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1711 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #284 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #419 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #298 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3864 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #498 / 830
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1407 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #156 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2423 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #901 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 5
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