Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 27
- Position: #3746 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #131 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #798 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #598 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #3631 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #511 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 4
Binary and Increment - 43 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #9 / 17
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #204 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #210 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #16 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 407 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #8 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3392 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 232 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #54 / 158
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #201 / 351
- Number of attempts: 7
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #60 / 268
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #255 / 293
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 13
- Position: #252 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #131 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #569 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 7
Letter case trickery - 1594 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
- Position: #122 / 511
- Number of attempts: 9
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #443 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1414 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #20 / 171
- Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 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: #71 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1609 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #199 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12284 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2709 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #1299 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 1
Jordana Lachow
Twitter: @TomofBedlam
Greetings mortal.