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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #349 / 426
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 1631
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 289 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #66 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

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: 23
Position: #54 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 361 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #45 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 502 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #36 / 209
Number of attempts: 5

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 71
Number of attempts: 3

Getters & Setters: Java - 212 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 109
Position: #22 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: #117 / 410
Number of attempts: 5

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 60
Position: #5 / 66
Number of attempts: 7

Shebangs for all - 2046 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: 14
Position: #213 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1064 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: #2 / 670
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 65
Position: #48 / 88
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 39
Position: #103 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 486 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: 28
Position: #109 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #13 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #83 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #380 / 461
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #90 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 548 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #61 / 189
Number of attempts: 2

Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #33 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #3 / 534
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 320 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: 44
Position: #74 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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: #32 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 348
Number of attempts: 2

Linear congruential generator - 143 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #6 / 54
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 778 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: 15
Position: #115 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 37
Position: #152 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Remember FizzBuzz? - 742 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Position: #93 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1501 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #16 / 582
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1649 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: 22
Position: #266 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13101 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #779 / 3768
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7230 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 37
Position: #501 / 1779
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.