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: #816 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #170 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #184 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 8
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #116 / 630
- Number of attempts: 7
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #31 / 450
- Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #196 / 700
- Number of attempts: 6
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #45 / 314
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #848 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Text to HTML Table - 171 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #9 / 49
- Number of attempts: 3
For all cases. - 141 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #37 / 100
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #22 / 141
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #17 / 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #73 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple addition - 310 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #11 / 117
- Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 957 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #32 / 266
- Number of attempts: 8
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #10 / 287
- Number of attempts: 4
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #75 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #290 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #310 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #48 / 242
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #593 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1142 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #788 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #484 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 12