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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #30 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 20
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 822 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #317 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #746 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: 40
  • Position: #43 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1064 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: #589 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 2
Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #13 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 22
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: 123
  • Position: #51 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #33 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 19
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #45 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 8
Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 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: #121 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #72 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #18 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 8
Indentation - 552 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #15 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hatsuyume - 548 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #18 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 104
  • Position: #19 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 14
Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #19 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #288 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 320 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: 32
  • Position: #20 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 15
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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: #130 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 7
Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #14 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 11
Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #33 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 10
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #167 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #129 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 6
Linear congruential generator - 143 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #30 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #66 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: 25
  • Position: #28 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 15
Reverse characters in a line - 778 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: 13
  • Position: #94 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 6
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 219 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: 23
  • Position: #8 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 757 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #38 / 219
  • Number of attempts: 14
Remember FizzBuzz? - 745 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #20 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 11
Get rid of html tags - 415 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #24 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1659 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #334 / 612
  • Number of attempts: 5
Deleting folded text - 386 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: 19
  • Position: #41 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 10
Sort and add attributes - 1507 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #293 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #56 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 10
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 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: 20
  • Position: #157 / 435
  • Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 1074 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #42 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 19
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #180 / 816
  • Number of attempts: 15
Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #78 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #735 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7258 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #684 / 1790
  • Number of attempts: 10
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