Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32904 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: #1254 / 7270
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #439 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18377 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #382 / 3787
- Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4639 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #543 / 1856
- Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2748 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #328 / 815
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #524 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #299 / 352
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1447 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #46 / 369
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #79 / 417
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #216 / 686
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2794 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #83 / 625
- Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2215 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #322 / 728
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #764 / 1541
- Number of attempts: 7
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #79 / 683
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1052 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #104 / 570
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #264 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 10
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 795 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: 14
- Position: #170 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Add to end of each line... kinda - 288 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: 13
- Position: #104 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7520 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #24 / 2043
- Number of attempts: 6
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 598 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #81 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 711 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #48 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 915 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #67 / 155
- Number of attempts: 9
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #189 / 431
- Number of attempts: 12
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #31 / 262
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 556 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #153 / 235
- Number of attempts: 3
Change your calendar - 279 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #42 / 77
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #349 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #36 / 267
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #34 / 433
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #76 / 279
- Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 15728 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #238 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #114 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 957 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #60 / 340
- Number of attempts: 6
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #77 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 161 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #52 / 125
- Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 431 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #101 / 151
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #91 / 291
- Number of attempts: 11
Don't know what this is - 1948 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: 12
- Position: #155 / 571
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #198 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #50 / 242
- Number of attempts: 6
Split the words - 348 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #59 / 105
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #437 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 14
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #197 / 685
- Number of attempts: 13
Letter case trickery - 1547 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: 11
- Position: #278 / 498
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3026 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: 15
- Position: #436 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1455 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 973 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: 17
- Position: #102 / 297
- Number of attempts: 7
Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #29 / 185
- Number of attempts: 7
abcd > a b c d - 260 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #138 / 204
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 476 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #87 / 181
- Number of attempts: 4
A simple change - 396 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #98 / 175
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 28
- Position: #68 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #198 / 424
- Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 1961 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
- Position: #113 / 466
- Number of attempts: 7
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1004 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #68 / 417
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2367 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #141 / 716
- Number of attempts: 9
Make the circuit grid! - 77 entries
Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #23 / 44
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #163 / 732
- Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #102 / 627
- Number of attempts: 6
Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #77 / 385
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and double space - 445 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #97 / 183
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #76 / 235
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #369 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 9
The meaning - 521 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #230 / 336
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort the cardinal numbers - 274 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #119 / 140
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1891 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #57 / 622
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 17
- Position: #60 / 325
- Number of attempts: 15
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 482 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: #20 / 143
- Number of attempts: 13
imports alignment (python) - 640 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #62 / 191
- Number of attempts: 12
HTML to Haml - 800 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #36 / 197
- Number of attempts: 13
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #28 / 625
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 13
- Position: #154 / 382
- Number of attempts: 6
Shebangs for all - 1771 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: #127 / 467
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 915 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: #386 / 609
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 590 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: #48 / 225
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse Simple Deletion - 758 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #22 / 429
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 567 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #260 / 370
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #165 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #180 / 326
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 554 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #55 / 221
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #12 / 186
- Number of attempts: 6
Change the content of a string - 1346 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #174 / 520
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1183 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #305 / 482
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2970 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #104 / 661
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 11620 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #366 / 3409
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6000 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #244 / 1479
- Number of attempts: 7