Played Challenges
Prime Numbers - 385 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 374
- Position: #98 / 107
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #38 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: #351 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Python to Ruby - 204 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #60 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #152 / 420
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #3 / 264
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #10 / 363
- Number of attempts: 3
Replacing some words - 428 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #144 / 151
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1358 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 / 336
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort entries based on date - 405 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #17 / 118
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 289 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #67 / 102
- Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 212 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: #50 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #56 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #9 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: #120 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
CSV to JSON - 173 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 150
- Position: #48 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2046 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: #81 / 522
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1064 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 / 670
- Number of attempts: 3
Round Round - 321 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 278
- Position: #81 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 486 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: #57 / 179
- Number of attempts: 5
Letters are numbers - 167 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: #14 / 76
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 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: #189 / 236
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #120 / 461
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #149 / 413
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #107 / 165
- Number of attempts: 3
Indentation - 552 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #22 / 181
- Number of attempts: 6
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 5872
- Position: #100 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 100 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #52 / 57
- Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #59 / 534
- Number of attempts: 6
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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: #172 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #226 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #7 / 146
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #19 / 348
- Number of attempts: 5
Linear congruential generator - 143 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #9 / 54
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: #200 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 778 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: #116 / 268
- Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 415 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #44 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1650 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #447 / 610
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1501 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #15 / 582
- Number of attempts: 8
Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 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: #174 / 191
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #346 / 814
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13095 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #781 / 3767
- Number of attempts: 10
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7230 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #496 / 1779
- Number of attempts: 1