Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 592 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #342 / 357
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #700 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 5
Cartesian product - 217 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #33 / 91
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 209 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #72 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 381 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #97 / 160
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat long lines - 329 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #44 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #89 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 782 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #132 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1777 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: 15
- Position: #231 / 468
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 934 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: #65 / 617
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 357 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #123 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 772 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #156 / 432
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #74 / 378
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 423 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #161 / 167
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 84 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #27 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1215 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #373 / 491
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the Haiku - 265 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: 53
- Position: #97 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 436 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #184 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 978 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #207 / 329
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 593 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #163 / 187
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1207 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #472 / 489
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #538 / 667
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 927 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #209 / 273
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1971 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 2
Soliman Sylvain
Twitter: @sylvain_soliman
Computer Science researcher, Mac user, Linux sysadmin, cross-platform developper, go and BJ player, pop-rock listener...