Played Challenges
Prime Numbers - 354 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 374
- Position: #94 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 753 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #332 / 406
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #892 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: #270 / 379
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 13
- Position: #119 / 405
- Number of attempts: 3
CSV to JSON - 173 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 116
- Position: #40 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1991 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: #242 / 514
- Number of attempts: 9
A Simple One - 1045 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: #19 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #52 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 312 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 146
- Position: #111 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #105 / 138
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 473 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: 25
- Position: #80 / 176
- Number of attempts: 4
Letters are numbers - 167 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #15 / 76
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 250 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #7 / 88
- Number of attempts: 8
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #77 / 458
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #129 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #70 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 534 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #58 / 177
- Number of attempts: 3
Hatsuyume - 495 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #118 / 182
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #53 / 523
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 40
- Position: #53 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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: 6
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #161 / 244
- Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 406 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #118 / 139
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #21 / 243
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #8 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #12 / 343
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #112 / 235
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 589 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: 48
- Position: #196 / 207
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 757 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: 30
- Position: #237 / 263
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #155 / 208
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 80
- Position: #158 / 188
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 394 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #36 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1561 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #14 / 583
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1433 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #19 / 557
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 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: 20
- Position: #4 / 409
- Number of attempts: 7
Braces or Brackets? - 964 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #137 / 310
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #400 / 776
- Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1233 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #115 / 331
- Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #774 / 3671
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6901 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #404 / 1690
- Number of attempts: 2
Behnam Esfahbod
Twitter: @zwnj
Software Engineer | Internationalization