Played Challenges
Swap values - 4373 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 942 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 280 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: 2
Vice versa - 7373 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4137 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 8
Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
swap or reverse - 98 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 298 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 194 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: 24
- Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1519 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 5
Mute the second method of this script - 420 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11062 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 7
Condensed Cases - 729 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: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15604 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5389 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 9
That hyphen - 2456 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 6
Count both ways - 932 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3076 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4585 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1903 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: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1079 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2175 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
Two become one - 692 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 3
Piphilology - 123 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 49
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1112 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10506 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
Going underground.... - 303 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: 28
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3346 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 11
Letter case trickery - 1507 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: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 2995 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
- Number of attempts: 6
Hole-in-one - 963 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12671 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 7
Saving the hashes(#) - 1920 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: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
fib.c cleanup - 58 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2293 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Switch function arguments - 1918 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4859 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11327 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5779 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 8