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: 26
- Position: #3385 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 3
vim = 22 / 7 - 424 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #74 / 130
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1594 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2218 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #422 / 729
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1307 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #595 / 683
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3310 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #244 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 906 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: 44
- Position: #224 / 352
- Number of attempts: 2
Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries
Format the chars
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #7 / 19
- Number of attempts: 1
Acute accents - 31 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #10 / 23
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #1080 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 3
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 155 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #45 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7535 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1128 / 2048
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #122 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
lipsum lines - 247 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #57 / 89
- Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 283 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #90 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Sudoku table - 58 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #13 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 481 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #105 / 123
- Number of attempts: 1
Manual SQL - 114 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 49
- Best player score: 81
- Position: #38 / 44
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #251 / 262
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 561 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #160 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Entries sort - 76 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #26 / 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #898 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 498 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 329
- Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 104 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #56 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 178 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #58 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #232 / 279
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 216 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #72 / 89
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 317 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #73 / 102
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #97 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 206 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #62 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 392 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #184 / 195
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3093 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 1
Shift down - 191 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #56 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 219 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #79 / 150
- Number of attempts: 1
vim1001 - 269 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #84 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1055 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #228 / 342
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #95 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 432 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #115 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 441 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #122 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
Refactor static member invocation - 193 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #51 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1951 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: 16
- Position: #489 / 572
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #356 / 422
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 351 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #90 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 307 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #89 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 315 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #81 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #3041 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1553 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: 12
- Position: #337 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 16
- Position: #598 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2847 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 978 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #213 / 298
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #147 / 185
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 629 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #199 / 344
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 559 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #126 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1510 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #358 / 424
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #268 / 420
- Number of attempts: 1
Enharmonic Equivalents - 54 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #29 / 33
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2370 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #566 / 718
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #165 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #517 / 735
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #381 / 627
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 953 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #323 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 663 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #218 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1158 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 522 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #255 / 337
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1897 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #551 / 624
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1290 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: #238 / 325
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1832 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #389 / 627
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
- Position: #287 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 782 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #180 / 211
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1777 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: 19
- Position: #378 / 468
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #417 / 617
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #296 / 378
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1215 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #424 / 491
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 978 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #275 / 329
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 565 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #154 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #426 / 521
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 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: 25
- Position: #296 / 347
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #384 / 667
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 26
- Position: #2986 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #900 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 1