Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #46 / 352
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1026 / 1541
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 897 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: #134 / 350
- Number of attempts: 4
formatted text to markdown - 180 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
- Best score: 70
- Best player score: 77
- Position: #28 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 640 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #132 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
Before there was Farmville... - 95 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 239
- Position: #35 / 46
- Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 800 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #65 / 197
- Number of attempts: 6
expand a list comprehension (python) - 276 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #36 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #87 / 194
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #264 / 625
- Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 190 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 132
- Position: #39 / 54
- Number of attempts: 4
Java Array2List - 218 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 89
- Position: #29 / 82
- Number of attempts: 4
The holy-grail may help - 315 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #70 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 12
- Position: #17 / 382
- Number of attempts: 6
Assignment Alignment - 770 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #164 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1771 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: 12
- Position: #89 / 467
- Number of attempts: 6
A Simple One - 923 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: #162 / 611
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 349 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #53 / 127
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 410 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: #50 / 157
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 compat - 590 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: 15
- Position: #90 / 225
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 758 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #420 / 429
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 567 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #157 / 370
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 192 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 119
- Position: #43 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1197 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #297 / 487
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 261 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: 50
- Position: #91 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 468 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: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #164 / 221
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #56 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 554 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #77 / 221
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 522 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: 28
- Position: #50 / 193
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 645 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: 16
- Position: #133 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1346 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #211 / 520
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 481 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #143 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1141 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: 26
- Position: #304 / 346
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 710 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #157 / 253
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2979 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #210 / 663
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2161 / 3410
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6004 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #545 / 1480
- Number of attempts: 3
Contributed Challenges
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 376 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?