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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: 5
Position: #36 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #100 / 1624
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #65 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

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: 44
Position: #218 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #34 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #50 / 151
Number of attempts: 3

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 52
Position: #20 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #70 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

formatted text to markdown - 184 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

Best score: 70
Best player score: 77
Position: #27 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 473 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #95 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: 30
Position: #41 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #81 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

expand a list comprehension (python) - 333 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #1 / 109
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #186 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 85
Position: #24 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

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: 12
Position: #15 / 406
Number of attempts: 7

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: #102 / 516
Number of attempts: 6

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 133
Position: #86 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #59 / 139
Number of attempts: 3

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: #24 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #65 / 90
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: 14
Position: #16 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #181 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #84 / 527
Number of attempts: 4

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: #40 / 246
Number of attempts: 4

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #43 / 141
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: #174 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 344
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #81 / 236
Number of attempts: 4

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: 32
Position: #110 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 210 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #20 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 35
Position: #142 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #40 / 588
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 360 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #70 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #53 / 563
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #132 / 315
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #189 / 335
Number of attempts: 3

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