Played Challenges
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #56 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #325 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
Return the cow - 71 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #7 / 28
- Number of attempts: 8
Acute accents - 32 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1 / 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 626 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #68 / 250
- Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #178 / 343
- Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 275 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #13 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
Subtraction - 178 entries
Solve the equations.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #9 / 61
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #5 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #9 / 351
- Number of attempts: 3
Suffix sort - 254 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #15 / 65
- Number of attempts: 4
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #10 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 169 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #9 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 438 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #8 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 468 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #47 / 143
- Number of attempts: 4
Winding path - 93 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #13 / 40
- Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #135 / 578
- Number of attempts: 3
Two become one - 710 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #19 / 205
- Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #48 / 431
- Number of attempts: 3
Vim tetris - 352 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #27 / 101
- Number of attempts: 4
Piphilology - 131 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #35 / 51
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #19 / 247
- Number of attempts: 8
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #22 / 101
- Number of attempts: 4
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
- Best score: 102
- Best player score: 115
- Position: #7 / 32
- Number of attempts: 3
Going underground.... - 339 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #63 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #377 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #66 / 692
- Number of attempts: 7
Counting in binary - 477 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #38 / 113
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #111 / 511
- Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #155 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #391 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 6
Pairs of numbers - 360 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #49 / 133
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1012 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #63 / 302
- Number of attempts: 6
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #133 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #67 / 171
- Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #172 / 356
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #53 / 439
- Number of attempts: 3
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #25 / 473
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #143 / 738
- Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #32 / 225
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #65 / 768
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #259 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #210 / 403
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #301 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #275 / 640
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #249 / 639
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: 12
- Position: #66 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 11
- Position: #23 / 500
- Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #346 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #134 / 558
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #181 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: #209 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #292 / 737
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #283 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #105 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 9