Played Challenges
Python: Def to Lambda - 110 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn the x - 100 entries
Turn the x to a +
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 11
Rural Post - 3622 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 7
Satisfy the go linter - 1464 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 8
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 398 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
Data reformat - 177 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 54
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 480 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 571 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 11
Capitalize the Names - 186 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 833 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 867 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 10
Alphabet soup - 284 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5702 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 969 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 7
Aliases for cd - 778 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 769 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1059 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 9
Line under headers - 1851 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 7
Unsemantic linewrapping - 797 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 1881 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 7
Remove quotes after first field - 275 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10286 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 12
html paragraph to table - 583 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 51
- Number of attempts: 11
ninja substitution - 1200 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 8
Resort and deup a CSV list - 125 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 210
- Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 682 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7592 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 22
Increment each number - 922 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 8
Build a six - 264 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 7
move titles next to url, in quotes - 440 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2029 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Delete to the end of the current line - 700 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 885 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3410 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 7
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 584 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 12
Santa's naughty / nice list - 75 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 44
- Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2697 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 16
Com(m)a Trouble - 3264 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 17
convert yml into java pojo field - 799 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 14
Swap values inside brackets - 2397 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Team names - 1752 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 9
multiple cursor alternative - 1410 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: 26
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2234 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 48
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1246 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 903 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2769 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2747 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 9
Split line with dots - 2075 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18189 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4374 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32648 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
- Number of attempts: 19
Collect List - 4138 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 10
Fix the XML - 933 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 3
Wget failed to download redirections - 169 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: 20
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11070 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15627 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5393 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3077 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4591 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 7
Mess in revision history - 1117 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3347 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 2996 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: 3
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12674 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 324 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 10
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1441 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 11
The name of the game - 597 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 631 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: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2740 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 13
switch variable - 4863 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 9
A Simple One - 870 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 534 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 40
- Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 4510 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 829 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 11332 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 9
Contributed Challenges
Put the months in order - 885 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.