Played Challenges
Prime Numbers - 340 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 374
- Position: #91 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #38 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #332 / 361
- Number of attempts: 1
Python to Ruby - 193 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #56 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #144 / 397
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 602 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #3 / 253
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 543 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #10 / 350
- Number of attempts: 3
Replacing some words - 418 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #140 / 147
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 17
- Position: #12 / 328
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort entries based on date - 359 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #17 / 113
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 256 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #64 / 97
- Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 190 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 143
- Position: #46 / 54
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 161 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #54 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 339 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #9 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #113 / 394
- Number of attempts: 3
CSV to JSON - 158 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 150
- Position: #47 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1846 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: #72 / 486
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 978 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: #12 / 636
- Number of attempts: 3
Round Round - 285 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 278
- Position: #76 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 432 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #50 / 168
- Number of attempts: 5
Letters are numbers - 149 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #12 / 73
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #182 / 229
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #117 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 626 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #132 / 393
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 502 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #101 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
Indentation - 492 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #19 / 167
- Number of attempts: 6
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 5872
- Position: #93 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 93 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #49 / 54
- Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #59 / 506
- Number of attempts: 6
Context insensitive completion 0 - 493 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #155 / 230
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #210 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 196 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #7 / 144
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #17 / 335
- Number of attempts: 5
Linear congruential generator - 112 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #7 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 547 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #189 / 198
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 701 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #105 / 248
- Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 356 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #32 / 213
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #396 / 542
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #15 / 510
- Number of attempts: 8
Add fold markers to a .c file - 526 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #150 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #287 / 699
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #724 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 10
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #463 / 1561
- Number of attempts: 1