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Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: 43
  • Position: #154 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cartesian product - 248 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #59 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #122 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2979 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #493 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reverse and double space - 499 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #74 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #95 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 10
The meaning - 573 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #8 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 998 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #67 / 190
  • Number of attempts: 17
Replacing some words - 425 entries

How fast could it be?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #11 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 6
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

  • Best score: 65
  • Best player score: 146
  • Position: #57 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #17 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1347 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #195 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 2
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #97 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #105 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #120 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 279 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #42 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 6
expand a list comprehension (python) - 333 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #50 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 6
Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #119 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1929 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #228 / 651
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 28
  • Position: #57 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 207 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: 95
  • Position: #11 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 13
Java Array2List - 232 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #13 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 20
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: 14
  • Position: #213 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 7
Shebangs for all - 1961 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: #120 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 19
Table Reshuffle - 409 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #52 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reverse and count - 470 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: 22
  • Position: #41 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 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: 16
  • Position: #134 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #227 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #227 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 495 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #39 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 7
Compile C - 398 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #59 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #84 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #297 / 342
  • Number of attempts: 1
Linear congruential generator - 137 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #40 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #19 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat a C golf submission - 582 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: 34
  • Position: #130 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reverse characters in a line - 750 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: #126 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 691 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #82 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 8
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #436 / 577
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 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: 24
  • Position: #295 / 403
  • Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 957 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #159 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #54 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 13
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2138 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6824 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #780 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 10
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