Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #325 / 407
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #17 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #51 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
CSV to JSON - 173 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 94
- Position: #28 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1046 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: #7 / 661
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #15 / 87
- Number of attempts: 6
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 312 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 137
- Position: #93 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #54 / 138
- Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 257 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #56 / 89
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 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: #4 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 684 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #121 / 406
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #56 / 161
- Number of attempts: 4
Hatsuyume - 498 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #76 / 183
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 238 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 128
- Position: #60 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1339 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #42 / 525
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 35
- Position: #27 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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: #9 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3 / 243
- Number of attempts: 4
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #153 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
Linear congruential generator - 137 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 140
- Position: #51 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 589 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: 27
- Position: #43 / 207
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1567 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3 / 585
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1436 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #6 / 559
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 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: 21
- Position: #153 / 409
- Number of attempts: 5
Flodder-challenge - 1234 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #37 / 332
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12740 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #740 / 3680
- Number of attempts: 2
Austin Taylor
Twitter: @austintaylor
Christian / dev @ UserVoice / fp / reformed