Played Challenges
Prime Numbers - 344 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #47 / 102
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #132 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #172 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #41 / 211
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #47 / 364
- Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 221 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #73 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #38 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #31 / 188
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #34 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 9
- Position: #149 / 439
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 101 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #21 / 45
- Number of attempts: 2
Python to Ruby - 196 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #13 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 99 entries
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #25 / 72
- 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: 29
- Position: #601 / 738
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #27 / 225
- Number of attempts: 9
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: #41 / 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: #41 / 652
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #28 / 403
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #38 / 194
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #45 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #132 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #148 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #27 / 640
- Number of attempts: 6
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #51 / 210
- 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: 17
- Position: #42 / 331
- Number of attempts: 7
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #9 / 97
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #109 / 639
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1001 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #286 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #20 / 134
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #35 / 230
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #243 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #233 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #40 / 156
- Number of attempts: 9
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #129 / 512
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #73 / 232
- Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 365 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #91 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #91 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #87 / 229
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 709 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #49 / 249
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #49 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #31 / 177
- Number of attempts: 8
Get rid of html tags - 368 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #180 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #84 / 558
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #120 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #25 / 172
- Number of attempts: 8
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #55 / 384
- Number of attempts: 8
Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #9 / 289
- Number of attempts: 11
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #52 / 311
- Number of attempts: 13
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: #105 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 10
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: #37 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 8