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: 11
- Position: #332 / 352
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4654 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1017 / 1542
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 42
- Position: #70 / 350
- Number of attempts: 1
Complete the hex array data - 190 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #61 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 924 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: #43 / 612
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 143
- Position: #95 / 133
- 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: 14
- Position: #1 / 225
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment, increment, increment.... - 568 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #60 / 371
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 495 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #83 / 153
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #267 / 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: 10
- Position: #189 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #221 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #279 / 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: 17
- Position: #142 / 236
- 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: 43
- Position: #154 / 186
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #375 / 521
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1191 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #351 / 484
- 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: 21
- Position: #2636 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Reformat some Python - 554 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Tom Adams
Twitter: @holizz
WordPress wrangler at @dextrousweb. Resident git, vim, and general commandline guru. In love with @jerricurrl.