Played Challenges
Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries
Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #57 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
Prime Numbers - 354 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #44 / 104
- Number of attempts: 10
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #111 / 406
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4976 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #159 / 1620
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11423 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #192 / 4185
- Number of attempts: 6
Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #120 / 214
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 40
- Position: #17 / 379
- Number of attempts: 6
Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #20 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 426 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #26 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15974 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #130 / 4175
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 3679
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12928 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #524 / 3960
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #4 / 56
- Number of attempts: 5
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #21 / 57
- Number of attempts: 3
Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #17 / 32
- Number of attempts: 3
Inconsistent real estate paste - 213 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #27 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #25 / 71
- Number of attempts: 3
Exchanging Quotes - 854 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #50 / 229
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2998 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #20 / 776
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2123 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #199 / 658
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1047 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #155 / 414
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 499 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #8 / 198
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #8 / 273
- Number of attempts: 2
constructor - 182 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 82
- Position: #18 / 60
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #8 / 263
- Number of attempts: 2
un-C-escape string - 58 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #16 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5068 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #97 / 1747
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 574 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #28 / 362
- Number of attempts: 2
Format the output - 146 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #15 / 40
- Number of attempts: 5
Calculate the table totals - 146 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #13 / 45
- Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1007 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #57 / 192
- Number of attempts: 7
Replacing some words - 425 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #42 / 150
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1988 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #141 / 647
- Number of attempts: 5
Line Zipper - 472 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #42 / 214
- Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1354 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: 29
- Position: #295 / 335
- Number of attempts: 3
Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #63 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
- Position: #13 / 150
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 19
- Position: #41 / 180
- Number of attempts: 4
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #29 / 69
- Number of attempts: 3
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #71 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
Before there was Farmville... - 101 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 162
- Position: #6 / 49
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #26 / 220
- Number of attempts: 6
A Simple One - 1045 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: #270 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #34 / 87
- Number of attempts: 7
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #20 / 138
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 250 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 88
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 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: 14
- Position: #31 / 233
- Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 161
- Number of attempts: 8
Indentation - 534 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #24 / 177
- Number of attempts: 7
Hatsuyume - 495 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #40 / 182
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 100
- Position: #11 / 99
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #337 / 523
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 30
- Position: #17 / 112
- Number of attempts: 5
Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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: #69 / 244
- 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: #85 / 243
- Number of attempts: 1
Linear congruential generator - 137 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #32 / 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: #20 / 235
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 26
- Position: #37 / 206
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
- Position: #45 / 261
- Number of attempts: 4
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 207 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #30 / 66
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 693 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #52 / 206
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #35 / 188
- Number of attempts: 6
Get rid of html tags - 394 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #199 / 228
- Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1561 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #74 / 583
- Number of attempts: 3
Deleting folded text - 350 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #11 / 116
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1431 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #103 / 556
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 608 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #19 / 181
- Number of attempts: 5
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1484 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: 20
- Position: #46 / 408
- Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 964 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #2 / 310
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #59 / 776
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1233 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #54 / 331
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #72 / 3671
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6901 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #15 / 1690
- Number of attempts: 8
Rod Knowlton
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Sysadmin turned coder. That's not a bad thing, is it? I also crack wise on non-code things as @toldorknown