Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1070 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #370 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #61 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1241 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Pairs of numbers - 360 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #68 / 133
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #91 / 225
- 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: 25
- Position: #161 / 473
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #50 / 441
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #358 / 768
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #372 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #763 / 1736
- 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: 18
- Position: #510 / 640
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 25
- Position: #239 / 331
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #73 / 163
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #290 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
- Position: #126 / 500
- Number of attempts: 8
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #105 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 559 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #143 / 200
- 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: 18
- Position: #182 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
- Position: #91 / 217
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #85 / 384
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
- Position: #1119 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #519 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 4