Played Challenges
Wget failed to download redirections - 181 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: #54 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Prime Numbers - 340 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #42 / 100
- Number of attempts: 10
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 664 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #111 / 379
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4771 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #159 / 1581
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11339 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #192 / 4157
- Number of attempts: 6
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 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: #116 / 210
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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: #13 / 361
- Number of attempts: 6
Sierpinski's Triangle - 82 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #19 / 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 396 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #26 / 197
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15894 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #130 / 4153
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10607 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 3659
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12824 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #518 / 3939
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a pandoc compatible table - 179 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 / 52
- Number of attempts: 5
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 157 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: #20 / 55
- Number of attempts: 3
Create an alphabet diamond - 76 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
- Best score: 40
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #15 / 29
- Number of attempts: 3
Inconsistent real estate paste - 179 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #25 / 54
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 218 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: #23 / 66
- Number of attempts: 3
Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #46 / 221
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #20 / 761
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2035 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #191 / 641
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 995 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #148 / 399
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 475 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #8 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 677 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 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
constructor - 178 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 82
- Position: #17 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 607 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #8 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
un-C-escape string - 55 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #16 / 49
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5016 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #97 / 1729
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 548 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #28 / 351
- Number of attempts: 2
Format the output - 143 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: #14 / 38
- Number of attempts: 5
Calculate the table totals - 129 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #12 / 42
- Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #53 / 184
- Number of attempts: 7
Replacing some words - 418 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #41 / 147
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1940 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #137 / 637
- Number of attempts: 5
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #40 / 210
- Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1324 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: #290 / 328
- Number of attempts: 3
Alphabetize the directory - 281 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #60 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 506 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 / 147
- Number of attempts: 8
Case preserving word replacement - 444 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 / 178
- Number of attempts: 4
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 151 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #28 / 67
- Number of attempts: 3
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 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: #69 / 163
- Number of attempts: 3
Before there was Farmville... - 95 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 162
- Position: #5 / 46
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 824 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #26 / 215
- Number of attempts: 6
A Simple One - 990 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 / 639
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 286 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #33 / 84
- Number of attempts: 7
Table Reshuffle - 366 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #19 / 132
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 236 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 85
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 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 / 229
- Number of attempts: 5
Sorting paragraphs - 503 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #22 / 156
- Number of attempts: 8
Indentation - 494 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #22 / 168
- Number of attempts: 7
Hatsuyume - 442 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #34 / 173
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 100
- Position: #9 / 94
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1278 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #330 / 509
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 273 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: #16 / 109
- Number of attempts: 5
Context insensitive completion 0 - 500 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: #67 / 231
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 451 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #85 / 229
- Number of attempts: 1
Linear congruential generator - 123 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #31 / 49
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 577 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #20 / 228
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat a C golf submission - 547 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: #34 / 198
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse characters in a line - 701 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: #41 / 248
- Number of attempts: 4
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 174 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: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #27 / 63
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 625 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #46 / 194
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 639 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #28 / 173
- Number of attempts: 6
Get rid of html tags - 356 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #185 / 213
- Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1442 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #74 / 546
- Number of attempts: 3
Deleting folded text - 325 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: #9 / 111
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1287 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #103 / 515
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 531 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 / 167
- Number of attempts: 5
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1281 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 / 367
- Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 805 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 / 270
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3206 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #46 / 710
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1038 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #45 / 298
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 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 / 3530
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #14 / 1573
- Number of attempts: 8
Rod Knowlton
Twitter: @codelahoma
Sysadmin turned coder. That's not a bad thing, is it? I also crack wise on non-code things as @toldorknown