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: #856 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 17
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #181 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 14
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1393 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 13
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #213 / 630
- Number of attempts: 10
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #225 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #111 / 376
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #176 / 700
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #51 / 635
- Number of attempts: 13
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: 14
- Position: #343 / 744
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #827 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #152 / 695
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2394 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #32 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 385 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #128 / 176
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #52 / 209
- Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #468 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #28 / 117
- Number of attempts: 7
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #61 / 77
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 325 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #22 / 104
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Position: #184 / 287
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #765 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 10
7th Birthday - 186 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #68 / 73
- 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: 11
- Position: #55 / 241
- Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 299 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #72 / 94
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #72 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #287 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 16
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #285 / 440
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #553 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #198 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 7
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #202 / 293
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #81 / 578
- Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #383 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #43 / 247
- Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2176 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #276 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1569 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 13
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: 13
- Position: #306 / 439
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #301 / 441
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #292 / 652
- Number of attempts: 9
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #463 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #118 / 185
- Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #82 / 640
- Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #263 / 639
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 14
- Position: #230 / 500
- Number of attempts: 7
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #370 / 512
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #342 / 529
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #111 / 737
- Number of attempts: 12
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: #468 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 12
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #260 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 10