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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #371 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 1674
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #69 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 238 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 388 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: #48 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #38 / 216
Number of attempts: 5

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 185 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 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Getters & Setters: Java - 219 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: #23 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: #121 / 419
Number of attempts: 5

CSV to JSON - 178 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 60
Position: #6 / 67
Number of attempts: 7

Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #218 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1091 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 / 680
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 65
Position: #49 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 39
Position: #104 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 501 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: #110 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 179 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: #14 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 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: #85 / 241
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #384 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #93 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #64 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Dumb to smart - 116 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #36 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #4 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 331 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: #75 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 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 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Linear congruential generator - 157 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 57
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 844 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 15
Position: #123 / 282
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 37
Position: #166 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Position: #99 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #16 / 615
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: #277 / 457
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #812 / 3902
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 37
Position: #528 / 1889
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

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

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.