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Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 963 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 211
Number of attempts: 8

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 822 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #324 / 429
Number of attempts: 11

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #749 / 1631
Number of attempts: 5

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: 34
Position: #212 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

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: 44
Position: #261 / 383
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 48
Position: #164 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 71
Position: #100 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 367 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #131 / 136
Number of attempts: 3

Insert a Markdown link - 461 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #44 / 152
Number of attempts: 8

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #278 / 655
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #164 / 215
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #355 / 410
Number of attempts: 5

Shebangs for all - 2049 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #242 / 523
Number of attempts: 11

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: #591 / 670
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 53
Position: #138 / 144
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #81 / 179
Number of attempts: 4

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: #74 / 236
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #59 / 461
Number of attempts: 4

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 413
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #50 / 165
Number of attempts: 7

Indentation - 552 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #48 / 181
Number of attempts: 6

Hatsuyume - 548 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 189
Number of attempts: 8

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #494 / 534
Number of attempts: 5

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: 43
Position: #73 / 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: #131 / 249
Number of attempts: 6

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #168 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #274 / 348
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #45 / 240
Number of attempts: 8

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: 32
Position: #117 / 210
Number of attempts: 8

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: 30
Position: #245 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #85 / 217
Number of attempts: 10

Remember FizzBuzz? - 745 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 55
Position: #74 / 195
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: 81
Position: #237 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

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: #298 / 582
Number of attempts: 5

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: 36
Position: #120 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 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: 69
Position: #420 / 435
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: 43
Position: #146 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #448 / 816
Number of attempts: 3

Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 33
Position: #122 / 352
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 13122 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 27
Position: #3342 / 3774
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7247 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 52
Position: #1485 / 1789
Number of attempts: 1