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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #322 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #18 / 1621
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 48
  • Position: #326 / 379
  • 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 - 434 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #19 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 208
  • 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 - 1998 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 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1047 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 / 662
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 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 / 233
  • 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.... - 684 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #163 / 406
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #57 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 5
Indentation - 534 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #59 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 513 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #112 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 238 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

  • Best score: 98
  • Best player score: 122
  • Position: #48 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 43
  • Position: #69 / 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: 7
  • Position: #7 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #169 / 243
  • 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 - 1046 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #165 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 43
  • Position: #181 / 207
  • 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: 58
  • Position: #193 / 208
  • 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: #32 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1436 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #412 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 608 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: #93 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
  • Position: #250 / 409
  • Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 1245 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #208 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12760 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #734 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 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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Certifiable renaissance man, gentleman, and scholar...it's rumored that I may someday rule the world

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contributed 1 challenges