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: #888 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #157 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #211 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #476 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #185 / 700
- 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: #60 / 635
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #185 / 744
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #486 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #155 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #879 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #65 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 10
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: #3 / 266
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #60 / 287
- Number of attempts: 5
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #7 / 93
- Number of attempts: 3
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #56 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #273 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 6
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #32 / 255
- Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #224 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #59 / 241
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #297 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #565 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #203 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #83 / 578
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1117 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #219 / 692
- Number of attempts: 12
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: #267 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #767 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #467 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #476 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 4
Chris Robertson
Twitter: @chrisxrobertson
Aspiring Web Developer. Current student at @coderfactory.