Played Challenges
vim = 22 / 7 - 422 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #54 / 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1594 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 574 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #187 / 204
- 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: 45
- Position: #262 / 350
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 279 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #52 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 351 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #52 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #141 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1711 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1845 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 345 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #114 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #70 / 167
- Number of attempts: 2
Define to require - 118 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
- Best score: 62
- Best player score: 75
- Position: #16 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Groups magic - 141 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #76 / 84
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #72 / 185
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor arguments into object argument - 160 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #26 / 64
- Number of attempts: 2
Readable Rubyhash - 239 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: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #14 / 88
- Number of attempts: 4
Dehamlizing - 174 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #50 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Checkerboard case pattern - 130 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #16 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
Shuffle and Sort - 183 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #27 / 60
- Number of attempts: 2
A simple change - 396 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #58 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 559 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #87 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 143 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #37 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
Inconsistent real estate paste - 166 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #27 / 52
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2367 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #374 / 716
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 202 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #54 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #97 / 218
- Number of attempts: 8
Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #250 / 385
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 445 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #147 / 183
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #192 / 260
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #982 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 3
Format the output - 102 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 75
- Position: #27 / 34
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 840 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #145 / 173
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 188 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 95
- Position: #31 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiplication table. - 195 entries
Create a multiplication table.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #38 / 63
- Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 1891 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #309 / 622
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1290 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #123 / 325
- Number of attempts: 2
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 482 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #56 / 143
- Number of attempts: 4
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 145 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #45 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 640 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #127 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 800 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #155 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 51
- Position: #42 / 103
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #151 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #277 / 625
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #205 / 382
- 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: #111 / 467
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 243 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 116
- Position: #65 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 130
- Position: #66 / 133
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 43
- Position: #65 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #167 / 326
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #135 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #82 / 186
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #226 / 521
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #898 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6015 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #561 / 1482
- Number of attempts: 3
Daniel Lundin
Twitter: @danielundin
Software developer and music enthusiast. Author of animation library snabbt.js