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: 22
- Position: #607 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #99 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #83 / 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: 7
- Position: #400 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #80 / 630
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
- Position: #18 / 635
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #169 / 744
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #461 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #133 / 695
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #697 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #2 / 271
- Number of attempts: 10
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #36 / 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: 16
- Position: #23 / 120
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #208 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 4
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #15 / 75
- Number of attempts: 4
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #31 / 161
- Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #16 / 123
- Number of attempts: 4
Array of characters - 153 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #10 / 45
- Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #196 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 407 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #37 / 115
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #13 / 182
- Number of attempts: 12
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #37 / 125
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 11
- Position: #41 / 241
- Number of attempts: 7
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #17 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #25 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #64 / 266
- Number of attempts: 8
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #27 / 155
- Number of attempts: 9
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #233 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #54 / 274
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #61 / 440
- Number of attempts: 7
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #40 / 284
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 12
- Position: #44 / 242
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #442 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #175 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #38 / 351
- Number of attempts: 8
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #50 / 293
- Number of attempts: 12
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: 11
- Position: #70 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #180 / 431
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1004 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #118 / 692
- Number of attempts: 14
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: #149 / 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: #243 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #694 / 3946
- 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: #40 / 473
- Number of attempts: 8
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #48 / 738
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #84 / 768
- Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #132 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #432 / 1736
- 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: 14
- Position: #1514 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #147 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 15
Stephen Aument
Twitter: @saument
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