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Played Challenges

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #103 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #599 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 44
  • Position: #227 / 382
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #38 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2399 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2575 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 41 entries

Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 117
  • Position: #18 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 1
Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 122
  • Position: #21 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #100 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 1
Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #33 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #30 / 95
  • 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: 60
  • Position: #22 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 51
  • Position: #51 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 45
  • Position: #32 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #52 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 478 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #160 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Unwrap the text of an email message - 192 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: 26
  • Position: #58 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 1
Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #24 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #340 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 33
  • Position: #25 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #421 / 757
  • 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: 40
  • Position: #185 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #178 / 419
  • 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: 23
  • Position: #254 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1306 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #34 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 1
Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 83
  • Position: #45 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #366 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #172 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 24
  • Position: #467 / 519
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #251 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #232 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #190 / 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: 13
  • Position: #54 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #128 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
  • Position: #78 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #591 / 804
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12994 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2397 / 3738
  • Number of attempts: 1
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