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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2090 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #143 / 379
Number of attempts: 14

Rural Post - 4468 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #606 / 1095
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 7415
Number of attempts: 4

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 88
Position: #75 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #63 / 135
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4799 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #12 / 1892
Number of attempts: 2

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: 5
Position: #141 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #33 / 752
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #773 / 1621
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #593 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1958 / 4194
Number of attempts: 8

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: 18
Position: #145 / 214
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: 43
Position: #157 / 379
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #579 / 1264
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #43 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #981 / 2125
Number of attempts: 4

Lower cased and dashed strings - 49 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 83
Position: #14 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 37
Position: #53 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #151 / 269
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #13 / 253
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 34
Position: #49 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #63 / 1190
Number of attempts: 16

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #82 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #112 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #104 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #115 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2475 / 4177
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #35 / 62
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #477 / 1137
Number of attempts: 9

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #159 / 354
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 145
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #129 / 300
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2020 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #279 / 584
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #79 / 208
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #257 / 437
Number of attempts: 6

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 102
Number of attempts: 13

Piphilology - 144 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #16 / 52
Number of attempts: 6

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #115 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 363 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #27 / 110
Number of attempts: 11

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1623 / 3680
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3511 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #252 / 698
Number of attempts: 6

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #49 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #205 / 518
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #48 / 1078
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 212 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #42 / 71
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #112 / 3961
Number of attempts: 6

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #207 / 304
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #84 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #21 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 164 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #52 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #53 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 75
Number of attempts: 6

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 93
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 85 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #19 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 222
Number of attempts: 3

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 14
Position: #23 / 50
Number of attempts: 4

Readable Rubyhash - 267 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: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #27 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #22 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 39
Position: #27 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #21 / 61
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 526 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #73 / 195
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #36 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #20 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 66
Position: #24 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #20 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 193 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #53 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 46
Position: #10 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 64 entries

Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #8 / 18
Number of attempts: 3

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #21 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #19 / 360
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 599 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #32 / 166
Number of attempts: 13

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #162 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

Chucking wood - 125 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

Best score: 51
Best player score: 54
Position: #11 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #62 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 74
Number of attempts: 7

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 62
Position: #14 / 26
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #27 / 79
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #162 / 480
Number of attempts: 14

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #146 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #18 / 113
Number of attempts: 4

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #20 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #15 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #281 / 754
Number of attempts: 7

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #33 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #73 / 230
Number of attempts: 10

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #259 / 777
Number of attempts: 9

Switch function arguments - 2130 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 661
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1054 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #180 / 418
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #40 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #166 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #136 / 1748
Number of attempts: 7

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #163 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #77 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #113 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 74
Position: #35 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #120 / 148
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 1995 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #239 / 649
Number of attempts: 5

Line Zipper - 473 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #56 / 215
Number of attempts: 8

remove dupes from array - 1354 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #111 / 335
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #57 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #72 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #148 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #61 / 117
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #87 / 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: #72 / 166
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 38
Position: #99 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #122 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #43 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #60 / 145
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #246 / 652
Number of attempts: 6

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: 13
Position: #155 / 406
Number of attempts: 3

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #87 / 220
Number of attempts: 8

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: #129 / 515
Number of attempts: 11

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: #291 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 410 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #89 / 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: 28
Position: #108 / 176
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 458
Number of attempts: 4

Increment, increment, increment.... - 684 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #241 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #90 / 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: 23
Position: #26 / 177
Number of attempts: 7

Hatsuyume - 513 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #52 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

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: 128
Position: #61 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1339 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #133 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

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: 37
Position: #35 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

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: #76 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 420 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #28 / 140
Number of attempts: 13

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #93 / 243
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: #177 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #84 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #59 / 207
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #56 / 208
Number of attempts: 5

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: 27
Position: #217 / 228
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #117 / 585
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 350 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: 22
Position: #82 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1436 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #117 / 559
Number of attempts: 4

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: 30
Position: #26 / 181
Number of attempts: 6

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: 21
Position: #198 / 409
Number of attempts: 11

Braces or Brackets? - 969 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #59 / 312
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #213 / 780
Number of attempts: 13

Flodder-challenge - 1245 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 32
Position: #98 / 333
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 12744 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #193 / 3681
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6937 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 39
Position: #698 / 1699
Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Marcin Szamotulski
Twitter: @me_coot

Functional programmer, mathematician.

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Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2090 entries

Rural Post - 4468 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 entries

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

V to the i - 4799 entries

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

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

That hyphen - 2595 entries

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Lower cased and dashed strings - 49 entries

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Collect List - 4298 entries

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

camel riding - 793 entries

readability - 327 entries

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Subtraction - 180 entries

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Count both ways - 1022 entries

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Don't know what this is - 2020 entries

Two become one - 713 entries

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Piphilology - 144 entries

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Split the words - 363 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

attr_aligner - 3511 entries

Counting in binary - 526 entries

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

Top X - 212 entries

Words in parens - 12929 entries

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

REDRUM - 164 entries

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Groups magic - 158 entries

Sort by your own sum - 85 entries

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

Readable Rubyhash - 267 entries

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

NATO phonetic alphabet - 526 entries

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

A simple change - 461 entries

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 193 entries

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 64 entries

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

The name of the game - 665 entries

lamb had a little Mary - 599 entries

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Chucking wood - 125 entries