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 - 385 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #46 / 107
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 5
- Position: #111 / 426
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #159 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11500 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #192 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 6
Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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 / 215
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: #18 / 383
- 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 - 427 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #26 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #130 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #528 / 3970
- 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 - 217 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #28 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 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 / 72
- Number of attempts: 3
Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #50 / 231
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #20 / 779
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2152 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #202 / 667
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #155 / 420
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 500 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #8 / 199
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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 / 275
- 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 - 663 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #8 / 264
- 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 - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #97 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #28 / 363
- 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 - 1009 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #57 / 193
- Number of attempts: 7
Replacing some words - 428 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #42 / 151
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #142 / 652
- Number of attempts: 5
Line Zipper - 477 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #42 / 216
- Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1358 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: #296 / 336
- 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 - 456 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 / 181
- 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 - 885 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #26 / 221
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #270 / 670
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 321 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #35 / 88
- Number of attempts: 7
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #20 / 144
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 90
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
- Position: #31 / 236
- Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #25 / 165
- Number of attempts: 8
Indentation - 552 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #25 / 181
- Number of attempts: 7
Hatsuyume - 548 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #45 / 189
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 100
- Position: #11 / 101
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #343 / 534
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 30
- Position: #17 / 115
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #69 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #85 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
Linear congruential generator - 143 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #33 / 54
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 627 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #20 / 240
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: #38 / 210
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
- Position: #46 / 268
- Number of attempts: 4
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 219 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: #32 / 69
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #54 / 217
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 742 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #36 / 194
- Number of attempts: 6
Get rid of html tags - 415 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #208 / 239
- Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1649 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #74 / 609
- Number of attempts: 3
Deleting folded text - 386 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: #13 / 121
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #103 / 582
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 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 / 191
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 20
- Position: #55 / 434
- Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 1073 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 / 331
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #64 / 814
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #58 / 352
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #72 / 3768
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7230 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #17 / 1779
- Number of attempts: 8
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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