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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 676 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #311 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #43 / 1585
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 260 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #63 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 23
  • Position: #52 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 341 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: #43 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 463 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #34 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 5
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 148 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 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 3
Getters & Setters: Java - 205 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: #21 / 56
  • 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: #1 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1216 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: #111 / 398
  • Number of attempts: 5
CSV to JSON - 163 entries

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

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #4 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 7
Shebangs for all - 1904 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: #203 / 497
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 996 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 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #46 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 3
Table Reshuffle - 369 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #97 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 455 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: #104 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letters are numbers - 150 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: #11 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 609 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: #79 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #374 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 643 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #77 / 398
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 450 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #49 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 2
Dumb to smart - 96 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #31 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1284 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3 / 511
  • 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: 44
  • Position: #69 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 502 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: #30 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1007 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1 / 337
  • Number of attempts: 2
Linear congruential generator - 128 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #5 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: #105 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 644 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #137 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remember FizzBuzz? - 653 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #82 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1321 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #16 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1348 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: 22
  • Position: #235 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12230 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #733 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6511 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #474 / 1602
  • Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 302 entries

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

Prime Numbers - 342 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

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entered into 34 challenges

contributed 2 challenges