Played Challenges
Find fix point of cos - 1204 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #121 / 365
- Number of attempts: 2
Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #58 / 523
- Number of attempts: 11
HS exam question - 1523 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #178 / 404
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat symbols in list - 1507 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #238 / 334
- Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #211 / 551
- Number of attempts: 2
Transpose a python matrix - 848 entries
Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #52 / 135
- Number of attempts: 6
Generate a very basic Python constructor - 315 entries
I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #34 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1368 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #165 / 316
- Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2023 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #15 / 373
- Number of attempts: 10
Rural Post - 4427 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #294 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 6
Satisfy the go linter - 2360 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #46 / 465
- Number of attempts: 4
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #20 / 302
- Number of attempts: 3
xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #80 / 218
- Number of attempts: 4
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 757 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #33 / 168
- Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #207 / 522
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #43 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 3
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #36 / 257
- Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #136 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #536 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #288 / 1530
- Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1066 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #108 / 278
- Number of attempts: 2
Separate the lines - 176 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #7 / 90
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 901 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #77 / 226
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1607 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #303 / 843
- Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #53 / 256
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1481 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #17 / 453
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #374 / 702
- Number of attempts: 2
Array propagate - 332 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #70 / 117
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #332 / 750
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #324 / 698
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1925 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #79 / 273
- Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 389 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #15 / 178
- Number of attempts: 4
For all cases. - 145 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #21 / 102
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 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: 16
- Position: #46 / 211
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #741 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 958 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #31 / 267
- Number of attempts: 4
Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #13 / 173
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #634 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 5
Free hyphen! - 165 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #63 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting a glossary - 127 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: 9
- Position: #78 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #160 / 421
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #108 / 183
- Number of attempts: 3
Alsa configuration - 502 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #77 / 127
- Number of attempts: 5
Align commas - 1063 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: 18
- Position: #178 / 243
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1146 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #74 / 262
- Number of attempts: 3
Add Go XML to structure tags - 153 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #8 / 67
- Number of attempts: 3
Restore order to the alphabet - 197 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #31 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #63 / 445
- Number of attempts: 8
Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #123 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #65 / 157
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #58 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 775 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #184 / 277
- Number of attempts: 2
readability - 315 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #58 / 150
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #216 / 442
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1000 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #128 / 287
- Number of attempts: 5
Line 'em up! - 396 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: 20
- Position: #65 / 112
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1596 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 2
Shift down - 194 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #46 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #577 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1006 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #233 / 352
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2029 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #241 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 17
- Position: #867 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2644 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #183 / 272
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2413 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #629 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 2