Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: #3782 / 7358
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4535 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1019 / 1255
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18615 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1389 / 3841
- Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4743 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #406 / 1878
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2124 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #416 / 629
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #417 / 700
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #171 / 742
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #465 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2554 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #138 / 694
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11346 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #715 / 4160
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #104 / 271
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #952 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 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: 18
- Position: #221 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #9 / 81
- Number of attempts: 8
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #86 / 120
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7778 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1242 / 2095
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #66 / 75
- Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #147 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #84 / 123
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #107 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #200 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #62 / 182
- Number of attempts: 9
Alsa configuration - 488 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #116 / 124
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 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: 19
- Position: #199 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 57
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #123 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #66 / 266
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #30 / 155
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4261 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #941 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #63 / 440
- Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2857 / 4159
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3170 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #817 / 1127
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
- Position: #197 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #703 / 3663
- Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #594 / 692
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3124 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: #462 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12850 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2328 / 3944
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2925 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #186 / 764
- Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5028 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #896 / 1734
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6512 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #998 / 1603
- Number of attempts: 2