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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 374 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #55 / 105
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #145 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #183 / 1624
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: 41
Position: #55 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

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

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #24 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by your own sum - 86 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #10 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

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: #18 / 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: #27 / 222
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: 24
Position: #8 / 95
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: #23 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

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: 32
Position: #17 / 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: 14
Position: #55 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

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: 45
Position: #7 / 26
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: 29
Position: #9 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

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: 8
Position: #11 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #82 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #8 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #24 / 61
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #149 / 445
Number of attempts: 3

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: 31
Position: #71 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #11 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #247 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #121 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1050 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: #305 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #22 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 139
Number of attempts: 5

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #29 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 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: 14
Position: #37 / 234
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: #251 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 163
Number of attempts: 6

Indentation - 542 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #28 / 178
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: 114
Position: #37 / 101
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: 38
Position: #43 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 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: #78 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #68 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #96 / 245
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: #25 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #53 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 604 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: 30
Position: #93 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

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: 13
Position: #59 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 210 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: 34
Position: #50 / 67
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: 25
Position: #58 / 210
Number of attempts: 7

Remember FizzBuzz? - 725 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 50
Position: #54 / 190
Number of attempts: 7

Get rid of html tags - 398 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #194 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #88 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 360 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: 18
Position: #15 / 117
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #128 / 563
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 625 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: #28 / 183
Number of attempts: 7

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 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: 20
Position: #60 / 412
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 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: #10 / 315
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #209 / 787
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 47
Position: #291 / 335
Number of attempts: 1

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: #1016 / 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: 37
Position: #528 / 1706
Number of attempts: 4