Played Challenges
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #892 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 3
Word Blender - 146 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 71
- Position: #42 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1108 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #130 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: 42
- Position: #79 / 364
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #122 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #56 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #7 / 205
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #114 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 15
- Position: #233 / 500
- Number of attempts: 2
Round Round - 287 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 276
- Position: #75 / 84
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 129
- Position: #66 / 141
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #124 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #85 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 457 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #130 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
Dumb to smart - 96 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #27 / 54
- 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: #2 / 512
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: 8
- Position: #122 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 79
- Position: #42 / 49
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 365 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #81 / 132
- Number of attempts: 4
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #11 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2 / 338
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 82
- Position: #152 / 177
- Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 341 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #23 / 113
- Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #133 / 172
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #374 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #1314 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Jordan Lewis
Twitter: @JordanALewis
Software engineer at @cockroachdb.