Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #325 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #18 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 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: 48
- Position: #327 / 380
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 358 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: #53 / 134
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #89 / 206
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 439 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #19 / 147
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 366 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #50 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 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: #206 / 406
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1999 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: #92 / 516
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1050 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: #60 / 664
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 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: 15
- Position: #76 / 234
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #409 / 458
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #165 / 408
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #59 / 163
- Number of attempts: 5
Indentation - 542 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #60 / 178
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 532 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #114 / 186
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 122
- Position: #49 / 101
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 308 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: #70 / 113
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 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: 7
- Position: #7 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #171 / 245
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #40 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #166 / 344
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 604 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: 43
- Position: #182 / 208
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #195 / 210
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 398 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #34 / 230
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1580 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1 / 588
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #416 / 563
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 625 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #95 / 183
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 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: 22
- Position: #253 / 412
- Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #209 / 335
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #739 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 4
Contributed Challenges
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Aaron Bull Schaefer
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