diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b7bb3b00d4d..6241b9fa41d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 .idea/
 *.iml
 
+# Vim
+.*.swp
+.*.swo
+
 # Build
 target
 dist
@@ -9,4 +13,7 @@ dist
 node_modules
 .DS_Store
 yarn-error.log
-.vscode/settings.json
\ No newline at end of file
+.vscode/settings.json
+
+# tests/js/test.js is used for testing changes locally
+test/js/test.js
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7056115e1ec..a26f0a5996e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ Feature enhancements:
 - [FEATURE #119](https://github.com/jasonwilliams/boa/issues/119):
   Introduce realm struct to hold realm context and global object
 
+Bug fixes:
+
+- [BUG #113](https://github.com/jasonwilliams/boa/issues/113):
+  Unassigned variables have default of undefined (@pop)
+
 # 0.4.0 (2019-09-25)
 
 v0.4.0 brings quite a big release. The biggest feature to land is the support of regular expressions.  
diff --git a/src/lib/exec.rs b/src/lib/exec.rs
index e391bd48972..ceb7d9e07e0 100644
--- a/src/lib/exec.rs
+++ b/src/lib/exec.rs
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ impl Executor for Interpreter {
                     let (name, value) = var.clone();
                     let val = match value {
                         Some(v) => self.run(&v)?,
-                        None => Gc::new(ValueData::Null),
+                        None => Gc::new(ValueData::Undefined),
                     };
                     self.realm
                         .environment
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ impl Executor for Interpreter {
                     let (name, value) = var.clone();
                     let val = match value {
                         Some(v) => self.run(&v)?,
-                        None => Gc::new(ValueData::Null),
+                        None => Gc::new(ValueData::Undefined),
                     };
                     self.realm
                         .environment
@@ -630,3 +630,32 @@ impl Interpreter {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::exec;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn empty_let_decl_undefined() {
+        let scenario = r#"
+        let a;
+        a == undefined;
+        "#;
+
+        let pass = String::from("true");
+
+        assert_eq!(exec(scenario), pass);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn empty_var_decl_undefined() {
+        let scenario = r#"
+        let b;
+        b == undefined;
+        "#;
+
+        let pass = String::from("true");
+
+        assert_eq!(exec(scenario), pass);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/js/test.js b/tests/js/test.js
index c990b090bbf..ae107b0f1eb 100644
--- a/tests/js/test.js
+++ b/tests/js/test.js
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
+///
+// Use this file to test your changes to boa.
+///
+
 let a = Boolean(0);
 typeof a;