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: 23
- Position: #2508 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #677 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1085 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1652 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #195 / 630
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 15
- Position: #205 / 635
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #166 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #822 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #457 / 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: #2225 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #664 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #79 / 171
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #61 / 120
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #78 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #733 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #65 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #57 / 161
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #94 / 123
- Number of attempts: 3
Sorting a glossary - 123 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #46 / 78
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #189 / 418
- Number of attempts: 4
Inner hyphens - 126 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #57 / 78
- Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #93 / 182
- Number of attempts: 8
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #72 / 125
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 20
- Position: #212 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #158 / 266
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #23 / 155
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #230 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #69 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #182 / 440
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #105 / 284
- Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 234 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #65 / 93
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #113 / 237
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #168 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 411 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #115 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1287 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #629 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #250 / 351
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #350 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #993 / 3667
- 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: 12
- Position: #346 / 511
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1536 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #288 / 441
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #363 / 738
- 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: 30
- Position: #653 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #406 / 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: 11
- Position: #97 / 403
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #426 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1336 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #229 / 331
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #403 / 639
- 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: 13
- Position: #198 / 500
- Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #222 / 512
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #103 / 338
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #397 / 558
- 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: 34
- Position: #338 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette
Software Engineer at @epicomcorp. PhD Music Theory, Eastman School of Music