Played Challenges
C Reformatting - 654 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1101 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 3
Pretty multi-line bash - 194 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 6313 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2168 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 1857 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4226 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 199 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 275 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2263 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Shebangs for all - 1643 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: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Inner hyphens - 114 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 266 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1258 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 727 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 14412 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Happy TvvO - 357 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 27183 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: 23
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 3634 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 946 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1451 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
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 12878 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 7
Split line with dots - 1922 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 8
Sorting a glossary - 101 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 881 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 899 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 9764 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 5
Alsa configuration - 471 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap text in quotes - 301 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 911 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4154 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4453 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 896 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph sort - 333 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2061 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2604 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1809 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: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 3790 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 11444 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 706 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 2716 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2256 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 6
Make Fancy Header - 923 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 417 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 520 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9782 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1141 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1420 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 6
Scrambled numbers - 753 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 8
remove dupes from array - 1253 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: 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 86 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 896 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 4854 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1754 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette
Software Engineer at @epicomcorp. PhD Music Theory, Eastman School of Music