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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 631 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #292 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4730 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #17 / 1565
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 252 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #48 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
CSV to JSON - 154 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 94
  • Position: #26 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 968 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 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 243 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #11 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 6
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 293 entries

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

  • Best score: 107
  • Best player score: 137
  • Position: #88 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 364 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #52 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 230 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #53 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 601 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 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 603 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #105 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 500 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #54 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hatsuyume - 433 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #67 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 128
  • Position: #56 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1245 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #42 / 499
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 269 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: #26 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 480 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: #6 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 438 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make Fancy Header - 991 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #149 / 334
  • Number of attempts: 2
Linear congruential generator - 112 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 140
  • Position: #47 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 546 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: #40 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1405 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1238 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #6 / 499
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1201 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: #129 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flodder-challenge - 974 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #26 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #694 / 3459
  • Number of attempts: 2
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