Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33614 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: #4 / 7418
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #662 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18725 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1584 / 3862
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #183 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #4 / 634
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #342 / 753
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1739 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #240 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #137 / 213
- Number of attempts: 1
Create a table - 332 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #79 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #50 / 122
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7904 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #859 / 2126
- Number of attempts: 2
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #66 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 690 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #103 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 131 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #10 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 513 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #54 / 128
- Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1095 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #146 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
ascii-art diamond - 44 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #15 / 17
- Number of attempts: 2
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #7 / 61
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #119 / 159
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #23 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 2
Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #21 / 26
- Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 126 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #8 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 327 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #7 / 152
- Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 185 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #43 / 60
- Number of attempts: 3
Logging with key - 328 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #60 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #272 / 444
- Number of attempts: 4
remove all lines in first part - 211 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #15 / 67
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #113 / 290
- Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 421 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #70 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 246 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #10 / 96
- Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #63 / 239
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #17 / 34
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1525 / 4179
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #546 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #660 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12930 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #656 / 3962
- Number of attempts: 4
Tiny column alignment - 61 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #12 / 23
- Number of attempts: 8
Louis Caruana
Twitter: @louiecaruana
USAF vet, astronomy, Libertarian GOP, Linux, & soccer. Desperately hoping for an end of 1 party, 2 names government.