Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 652 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #301 / 376
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #27 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 6
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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: 44
- Position: #198 / 361
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 256 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #48 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 211 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #30 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 339 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 204
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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: 13
- Position: #128 / 394
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1846 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: #73 / 486
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 978 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: #1 / 636
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 296 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 130
- Position: #67 / 138
- Number of attempts: 4
Table Reshuffle - 366 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #41 / 132
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 432 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: 24
- Position: #54 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 236 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #41 / 85
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #143 / 450
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 626 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #98 / 393
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 442 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #123 / 173
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 107
- Position: #22 / 94
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #23 / 506
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 272 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: 33
- Position: #19 / 108
- Number of attempts: 7
Context insensitive completion 0 - 493 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: #14 / 230
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove Accent off the Letter - 105 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 71
- Position: #35 / 49
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 196 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #24 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #3 / 335
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 576 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #169 / 227
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 547 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: 50
- Position: #190 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 613 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #143 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 356 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #29 / 213
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #19 / 542
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #7 / 510
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1265 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: 21
- Position: #140 / 366
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #626 / 699
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1006 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #288 / 294
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #711 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 5
Contributed Challenges
Fix the Haiku - 272 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 236 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Table Reshuffle - 366 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
A Simple One - 978 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...