Played Challenges
Wget failed to download redirections - 178 entries
Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #25 / 60
- 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: 7
- Position: #151 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #303 / 729
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #780 / 1550
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2507 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #47 / 684
- 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: #83 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5444 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #328 / 1229
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 561 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #73 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 505 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #208 / 330
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #166 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 758 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
- Position: #21 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
increment by column in XML - 146 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #21 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
Pretty format for variable declarations - 144 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #31 / 55
- 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: 12
- Position: #52 / 195
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15749 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #72 / 4117
- Number of attempts: 2
Shift down - 191 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #22 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 23
- Position: #64 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3122 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #66 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #68 / 342
- Number of attempts: 3
Suffix sort - 235 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #30 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 432 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #35 / 152
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 441 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #67 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 707 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #61 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 29
- Position: #23 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 221 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #66 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #86 / 292
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 12
- Position: #172 / 572
- Number of attempts: 3
Two become one - 703 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
- Position: #65 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #136 / 422
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #82 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #38 / 100
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 28
- Position: #43 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1930 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #85 / 685
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 11
- Position: #259 / 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: 15
- Position: #430 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1402 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 345 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #40 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
Coordinates placeholder - 61 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #13 / 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 75 entries
Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #8 / 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Groups magic - 142 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #57 / 85
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #56 / 185
- Number of attempts: 2
Checkerboard case pattern - 133 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #15 / 54
- 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: 25
- Position: #41 / 157
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 9
- Position: #207 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 1966 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: #100 / 467
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #260 / 420
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the chessboard - 67 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #13 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2377 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #221 / 719
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2826 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #170 / 739
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1985 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #258 / 628
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 958 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #213 / 388
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 665 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: 16
- Position: #175 / 262
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 572 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #201 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #343 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 864 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #64 / 174
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1905 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #165 / 625
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 18
- Position: #95 / 325
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1832 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #246 / 627
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 782 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #67 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
- Position: #134 / 468
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 937 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: #402 / 618
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 773 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #301 / 433
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #293 / 378
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 452 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #28 / 160
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1354 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #151 / 522
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3012 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #86 / 668
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11662 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1333 / 3419
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6035 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #114 / 1487
- Number of attempts: 6