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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #127 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #168 / 1629
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: #157 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #65 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #18 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #30 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #25 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #13 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the circuit grid! - 105 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 73
Position: #20 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 90 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #9 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #317 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #11 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #35 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 44
Position: #45 / 79
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #7 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #12 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #17 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Inconsistent real estate paste - 216 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #30 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #203 / 755
Number of attempts: 4

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #15 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #37 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #356 / 664
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: 16
Position: #162 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #40 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #120 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 27
Position: #12 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1052 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: #284 / 666
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #53 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #242 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1354 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #126 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 313 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: 37
Position: #35 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #66 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #89 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #54 / 238
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat a C golf submission - 612 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: #13 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 776 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: #133 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #89 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 62
Position: #124 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #80 / 593
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: 20
Position: #60 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #337 / 573
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1557 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: 21
Position: #203 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 1043 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #106 / 322
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3708 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #218 / 797
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #996 / 3717
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7040 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 40
Position: #799 / 1729
Number of attempts: 1