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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #16 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

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: #140 / 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: #182 / 1631
Number of attempts: 5

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: 41
Position: #55 / 383
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #8 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 397 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 88
Number of attempts: 3

Word frequency alignment - 291 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #35 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #7 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

XML to JSON - 47 entries

Convert this xml file into json.

Best score: 75
Best player score: 83
Position: #4 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

fib.c cleanup - 71 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 172 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate words - 257 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 106 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #27 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 41
Position: #18 / 32
Number of attempts: 9

Block Fun 1 - 211 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #50 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 162 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #42 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 86 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #11 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 298 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #32 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 13
Position: #4 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 274 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: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #33 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #14 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 474 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #154 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 52
Position: #15 / 31
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: 33
Position: #25 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

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: 27
Position: #22 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 54
Position: #20 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Extract text from xml - 128 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #19 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #40 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 637 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #71 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Chucking wood - 136 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

Best score: 51
Best player score: 54
Position: #14 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #76 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Unwrap the text of an email message - 192 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #76 / 480
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #153 / 448
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #19 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

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: #42 / 779
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2152 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #50 / 667
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #121 / 655
Number of attempts: 4

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: #302 / 670
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 88
Number of attempts: 4

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 108
Position: #11 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #37 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #27 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

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: #36 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #251 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 165
Number of attempts: 3

Indentation - 552 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #43 / 181
Number of attempts: 5

Hatsuyume - 548 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #36 / 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: 114
Position: #36 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #134 / 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: 37
Position: #37 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

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: #77 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 62
Position: #24 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 143
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: #94 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #67 / 348
Number of attempts: 2

Linear congruential generator - 143 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #24 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #25 / 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: 25
Position: #14 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

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: #56 / 268
Number of attempts: 5

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: 25
Position: #14 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

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: #79 / 217
Number of attempts: 5

Remember FizzBuzz? - 742 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 55
Position: #68 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

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: 17
Position: #83 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1646 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #87 / 607
Number of attempts: 4

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: 19
Position: #36 / 121
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #124 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

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: #27 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 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: #68 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

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: 41
Position: #109 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

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: #80 / 814
Number of attempts: 10

Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 31
Position: #100 / 352
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 13093 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #111 / 3766
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 32
Position: #46 / 1778
Number of attempts: 4