Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33392 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: 27
- Position: #3778 / 7365
- 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: #217 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2207 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Top X - 191 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #65 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #3730 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
Draw the Go board - 140 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 73
- Position: #33 / 48
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 33
- Position: #417 / 473
- Number of attempts: 6
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #186 / 441
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1471 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 16
- Position: #2103 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6563 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #1325 / 1617
- Number of attempts: 1
Vincent Lee
Twitter: @vincentleest
Vulnerability Researcher @TELUS. Previously: Agile Engineer @XtremeLabs