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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 493 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #106 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #35 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1505 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #389 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 50
  • Position: #368 / 402
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1922 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 540 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #59 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 2
imports alignment (python) - 728 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #13 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 421 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #52 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat long lines - 390 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: 21
  • Position: #100 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1970 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #493 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 1
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 119
  • Position: #66 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #74 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 669 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: 19
  • Position: #201 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 875 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #184 / 467
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #120 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1419 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #422 / 544
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 10
  • Position: #229 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 535 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #60 / 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: 18
  • Position: #231 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #167 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 39
  • Position: #175 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 837 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #195 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 829 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #162 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
  • Position: #209 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1807 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #486 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1601 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #464 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 34
  • Position: #75 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
  • Position: #305 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 54
  • Position: #300 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4070 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #484 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1510 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #258 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #883 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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