Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: #284 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #130 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #315 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2103 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #135 / 623
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 592 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #231 / 357
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1262 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #85 / 417
- Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #6 / 686
- Number of attempts: 10
Copy three lines - 2801 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #278 / 625
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #513 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #102 / 683
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #544 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 78 entries
Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #5 / 36
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #127 / 570
- Number of attempts: 4
Interweave two blocks of text - 584 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: 15
- Position: #20 / 205
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 48 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #16 / 29
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #103 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 17
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 798 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: #15 / 273
- Number of attempts: 4
Combines all items - 271 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #47 / 123
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7535 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #671 / 2048
- Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #103 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 395 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #18 / 111
- Number of attempts: 7
Change attribute to getter - 111 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #17 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #102 / 431
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap assigned value - 561 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #90 / 236
- Number of attempts: 8
Cartesian product - 217 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #4 / 91
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #159 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #337 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #143 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #515 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #627 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 5
Word frequency alignment - 245 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #101 / 146
- Number of attempts: 3
Circle in a square - 125 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #10 / 48
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 479 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #35 / 182
- Number of attempts: 6
A simple change - 401 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #38 / 177
- Number of attempts: 8
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 160 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: 26
- Position: #16 / 97
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #115 / 420
- Number of attempts: 4
Recursively Palindrome - 234 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2370 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #229 / 718
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #261 / 735
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove semicolons after expressions - 568 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #97 / 241
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #920 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 280 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #43 / 141
- Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 1905 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #473 / 625
- Number of attempts: 2
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 502 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #23 / 144
- Number of attempts: 10
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1172 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: 12
- Position: #85 / 386
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 934 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: #471 / 617
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 597 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: #59 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 772 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #41 / 432
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #16 / 378
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 436 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #133 / 223
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 978 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #111 / 329
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 593 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #54 / 187
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1207 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #352 / 489
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #395 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #839 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 2