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Played Challenges

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #335 / 421
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #25 / 1630
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 42
Position: #91 / 382
Number of attempts: 3

Cartesian product - 259 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #52 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 287 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #26 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #17 / 99
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat long lines - 361 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: 21
Position: #86 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 37
Position: #176 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #47 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Position: #71 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 377 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #12 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: #190 / 407
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2016 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: 13
Position: #167 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 1057 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: #3 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 439 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #65 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and count - 480 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: 25
Position: #81 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 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: 17
Position: #144 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #87 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #54 / 165
Number of attempts: 4

Indentation - 550 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #59 / 180
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #143 / 187
Number of attempts: 3

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: 137
Position: #73 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #32 / 531
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 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: 9
Position: #158 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #112 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 247
Number of attempts: 4

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #4 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 142 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 38
Position: #77 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 776 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: 17
Position: #167 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 56
Position: #76 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #199 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #7 / 593
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #397 / 575
Number of attempts: 5

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #161 / 425
Number of attempts: 7

Flodder-challenge - 1325 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 41
Position: #255 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12971 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #752 / 3733
Number of attempts: 4