Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #339 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #27 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 6
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: #209 / 382
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 287 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #50 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #31 / 99
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 377 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 212
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: #134 / 407
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2018 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: #80 / 519
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1057 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 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 130
- Position: #72 / 146
- Number of attempts: 4
Table Reshuffle - 439 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #44 / 142
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 480 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: #60 / 178
- Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #43 / 90
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #145 / 460
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #113 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 540 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #137 / 187
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 107
- Position: #25 / 101
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #23 / 532
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 313 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: #21 / 114
- Number of attempts: 7
Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 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: #17 / 248
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 71
- Position: #38 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #24 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #5 / 346
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 622 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #179 / 238
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 612 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: #200 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #160 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 407 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #39 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #19 / 594
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #7 / 575
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 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: 21
- Position: #168 / 425
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #717 / 804
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #336 / 346
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #763 / 3739
- Number of attempts: 5
Contributed Challenges
Fix the Haiku - 313 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Table Reshuffle - 439 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
A Simple One - 1057 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...