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: 6
- Position: #308 / 386
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #27 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 6
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: #199 / 364
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 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 - 215 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 - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #129 / 401
- 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: #76 / 500
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #1 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 130
- Position: #69 / 141
- Number of attempts: 4
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #41 / 134
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 24
- Position: #57 / 172
- Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #41 / 85
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #143 / 454
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #105 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 457 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #125 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 107
- Position: #22 / 95
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #23 / 512
- 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: 33
- Position: #19 / 109
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #15 / 232
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 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 - 198 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 - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #3 / 338
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #171 / 229
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 50
- Position: #192 / 200
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #148 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 368 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #30 / 217
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #19 / 558
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #7 / 529
- 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: 21
- Position: #147 / 384
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #658 / 736
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #304 / 311
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #724 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 5
Contributed Challenges
Fix the Haiku - 275 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
A Simple One - 1001 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
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