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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #58 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1624 / 4197
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #195 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

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: 45
Position: #281 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #58 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #53 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #145 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1740 / 3683
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1875 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 55
Position: #120 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #72 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 75
Position: #17 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #82 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #77 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 65
Position: #28 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #16 / 95
Number of attempts: 4

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 45
Position: #52 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

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: #20 / 61
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: #32 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 36
Position: #91 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 32
Position: #40 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Inconsistent real estate paste - 216 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #31 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #396 / 754
Number of attempts: 2

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #60 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #103 / 230
Number of attempts: 8

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #272 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #158 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #200 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1009 / 1748
Number of attempts: 3

Format the output - 146 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 75
Position: #33 / 40
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: 51
Position: #160 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 95
Position: #34 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 78
Position: #41 / 68
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #325 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 20
Position: #129 / 336
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: 27
Position: #59 / 150
Number of attempts: 4

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: 26
Position: #46 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #131 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 48
Position: #161 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

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: 51
Position: #46 / 109
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #155 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #296 / 652
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: 14
Position: #217 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

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: #122 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 116
Position: #72 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

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: 130
Position: #74 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

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: #71 / 113
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: #175 / 344
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 771 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: 16
Position: #154 / 265
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: 28
Position: #97 / 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: 23
Position: #266 / 588
Number of attempts: 2

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: #961 / 3694
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 38
Position: #610 / 1706
Number of attempts: 3

Daniel Lundin
Twitter: @danielundin

Software developer and music enthusiast. Author of animation library snabbt.js