Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #21 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 13
- Position: #135 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1991 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: #176 / 514
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1045 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: #89 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 473 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: 28
- Position: #107 / 176
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 250 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #62 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 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: #2 / 233
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #150 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #127 / 405
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #81 / 161
- Number of attempts: 5
Indentation - 534 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #95 / 177
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #303 / 523
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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: #164 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #276 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #64 / 235
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat a C golf submission - 589 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: 35
- Position: #136 / 207
- Number of attempts: 2
Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #135 / 188
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1561 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #381 / 583
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1433 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #2 / 557
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 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: 21
- Position: #148 / 409
- Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #717 / 776
- Number of attempts: 3
Leonard Chin
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