Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4654 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #35 / 1542
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 45
- Position: #247 / 350
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #132 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 251 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #52 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 411 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #93 / 139
- Number of attempts: 2
Solve the Sokoban - 160 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #15 / 70
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 18
- Position: #341 / 467
- Number of attempts: 4
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 286 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 124
- Position: #47 / 133
- 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: 38
- Position: #90 / 127
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and count - 412 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: 29
- Position: #101 / 158
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #78 / 225
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse Simple Deletion - 759 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #144 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 568 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #132 / 371
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 495 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #115 / 153
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 446 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #145 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 413 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #106 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #456 / 488
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 470 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: #141 / 222
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #20 / 222
- Number of attempts: 3
Almost encrypted - 180 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #34 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #154 / 326
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 554 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #139 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 523 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: 30
- Position: #78 / 194
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #159 / 186
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 589 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #61 / 166
- Number of attempts: 4
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #10 / 521
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1191 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #11 / 484
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 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: #127 / 347
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #2483 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6015 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1111 / 1482
- Number of attempts: 3
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