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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #31 / 109
Number of attempts: 20

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #317 / 455
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #746 / 1677
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1057 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: #45 / 402
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1094 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: #589 / 682
Number of attempts: 2

Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 89
Number of attempts: 22

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 330 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 123
Position: #52 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 145
Number of attempts: 19

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 280 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #46 / 92
Number of attempts: 8

Ruby 1.9 compat - 668 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: #123 / 243
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #72 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 569 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #19 / 170
Number of attempts: 8

Indentation - 575 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 183
Number of attempts: 8

Hatsuyume - 583 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #18 / 195
Number of attempts: 6

Turn this csv list into queries - 278 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 104
Position: #20 / 104
Number of attempts: 14

Dumb to smart - 116 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #22 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1419 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #289 / 544
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the Haiku - 332 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: 32
Position: #21 / 117
Number of attempts: 15

Context insensitive completion 0 - 611 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: #131 / 258
Number of attempts: 7

Remove Accent off the Letter - 158 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #15 / 54
Number of attempts: 11

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #34 / 146
Number of attempts: 10

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 535 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #167 / 253
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1111 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #129 / 357
Number of attempts: 6

Linear congruential generator - 157 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #31 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #68 / 248
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat a C golf submission - 681 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: 25
Position: #31 / 222
Number of attempts: 15

Reverse characters in a line - 847 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: 13
Position: #100 / 284
Number of attempts: 6

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 251 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: 23
Position: #10 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 239
Number of attempts: 14

Remember FizzBuzz? - 829 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 43
Position: #24 / 212
Number of attempts: 11

Get rid of html tags - 465 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #355 / 658
Number of attempts: 5

Deleting folded text - 429 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: 19
Position: #44 / 131
Number of attempts: 10

Sort and add attributes - 1601 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #293 / 619
Number of attempts: 4

Add fold markers to a .c file - 740 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 31
Position: #59 / 204
Number of attempts: 10

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1757 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: #166 / 459
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 1209 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: #42 / 365
Number of attempts: 19

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #188 / 868
Number of attempts: 15

Flodder-challenge - 1510 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #82 / 380
Number of attempts: 14

Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #735 / 3914
Number of attempts: 9

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7722 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 38
Position: #715 / 1896
Number of attempts: 10