Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #3782 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1014 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3130 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1170 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #478 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #361 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 20
- Position: #690 / 744
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1179 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #660 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2214 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #900 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #109 / 120
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #373 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #143 / 182
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #91 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #165 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #208 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 626 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #241 / 250
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1118 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #230 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #321 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #219 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #223 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3165 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #816 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #310 / 351
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 468 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #90 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #348 / 578
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2117 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #487 / 692
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #470 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #886 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3456 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #128 / 171
- Number of attempts: 2
Readable Rubyhash - 244 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: 34
- Position: #77 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #470 / 768
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #599 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 17
- Position: #225 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1184 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #150 / 185
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #394 / 454
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #189 / 338
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #382 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 29
- Position: #357 / 384
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #2186 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #798 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 2
Ryan van Rensburg
Twitter: @rdvr001
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