Played Challenges
One number per line - 18378 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3078 / 3788
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #189 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #213 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 16
- Position: #45 / 204
- Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #838 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #84 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #131 / 262
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap assigned value - 556 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #76 / 235
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #662 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 4
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #241 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
swap or reverse - 104 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #10 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 292 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #74 / 84
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #154 / 433
- Number of attempts: 3
remove all lines in first part - 178 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #19 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #267 / 279
- Number of attempts: 2
Shuffled numbers - 212 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #8 / 88
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 752 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #26 / 230
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15740 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1517 / 4115
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #536 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 959 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #74 / 341
- Number of attempts: 10
120 Degrees - 441 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #21 / 140
- Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #145 / 421
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #687 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #316 / 685
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1547 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #445 / 498
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3026 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #192 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3671 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 973 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #258 / 297
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
- Position: #13 / 84
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 8
- Position: #69 / 424
- Number of attempts: 8
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1005 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #377 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #260 / 627
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #98 / 260
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #355 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 280 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #41 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1891 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #67 / 622
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #130 / 325
- Number of attempts: 6
HTML to Haml - 800 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #148 / 197
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #386 / 625
- 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: 14
- Position: #213 / 467
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 22
- Position: #34 / 158
- 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: #302 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #206 / 488
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #97 / 326
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2980 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #401 / 664
- 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: #1365 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 5
Evan Coleman
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Freelance Mac/iOS Developer, Formerly @timehop, Aerospace Engineer, Student Pilot, Skier, Guitarist, Yankees, Knicks & Jets Fan.