Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #1596 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 10
Add text at some column - 154 entries
Complete golang struct statement.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #47 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1554 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1054 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #177 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules (ver.2) - 211 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #47 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #275 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #269 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #196 / 254
- Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #178 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1269 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #227 / 516
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #196 / 630
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #500 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #216 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #889 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #432 / 744
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #410 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #85 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #420 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #58 / 271
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #145 / 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: #119 / 364
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #647 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 5
Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #38 / 80
- Number of attempts: 3
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries
FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #34 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 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: #47 / 171
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #18 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #52 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 9
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: #61 / 75
- Number of attempts: 2
Free hyphen! - 159 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: 9
- Position: #2 / 85
- Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 82
- Position: #150 / 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: #78 / 123
- Number of attempts: 1
Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries
As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 107
- Position: #18 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 210 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #53 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #96 / 165
- Number of attempts: 3
Array of characters - 153 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #26 / 45
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #32 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
lipsum lines - 252 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #39 / 91
- Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 124 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #32 / 77
- Number of attempts: 3
Angular naming conventions - 301 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #45 / 114
- Number of attempts: 3
Replace and keep the case - 407 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #1 / 115
- Number of attempts: 7
Sudoku table - 70 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 68
- Position: #26 / 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #77 / 182
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 125
- Number of attempts: 2
Create bison tokens - 34 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
- Best score: 85
- Best player score: 97
- Position: #9 / 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Manual SQL - 133 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #25 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #82 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #330 / 496
- Number of attempts: 1
Song Transcription Oops - 234 entries
When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #60 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #18 / 55
- Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #93 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #8 / 68
- Number of attempts: 6
Assign numbers to fields - 105 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #13 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #41 / 266
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 624 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #80 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
Entries sort - 81 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #17 / 38
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #92 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #225 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #18 / 24
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #39 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Land of the Lost - 77 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #25 / 30
- Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 115 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #37 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
readability - 312 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #117 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 158 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #5 / 58
- Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #41 / 86
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #39 / 440
- Number of attempts: 4
remove all lines in first part - 190 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #47 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #26 / 284
- Number of attempts: 6
Line 'em up! - 392 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: 17
- Position: #23 / 110
- Number of attempts: 7
Shuffled numbers - 234 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #29 / 93
- Number of attempts: 5
ASCII box - 325 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #47 / 104
- Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #96 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
Winning streak - 124 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #19 / 49
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 219 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #63 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #34 / 242
- Number of attempts: 6
increment by column in XML - 146 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #24 / 53
- Number of attempts: 4
Pretty format for variable declarations - 155 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #16 / 62
- Number of attempts: 4
Happy TvvO - 407 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #101 / 201
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #263 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 8
Shift down - 193 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #17 / 67
- Number of attempts: 6
vim1001 - 275 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #35 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
Subtraction - 178 entries
Solve the equations.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #31 / 61
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #121 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #77 / 351
- Number of attempts: 3
Suffix sort - 254 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #42 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #47 / 114
- Number of attempts: 2
Change name of a variable - 169 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #95 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 438 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #115 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 468 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #23 / 143
- Number of attempts: 7
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #81 / 268
- Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 entries
One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #42 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Refactor static member invocation - 198 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #41 / 63
- Number of attempts: 1
Winding path - 93 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #28 / 40
- Number of attempts: 1
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 226 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #88 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #37 / 293
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 11
- Position: #50 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
Two become one - 710 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #118 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #159 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #107 / 247
- Number of attempts: 5
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #15 / 101
- Number of attempts: 5
Going underground.... - 339 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #46 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 356 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #16 / 108
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2044 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #264 / 692
- Number of attempts: 8
Counting in binary - 477 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #8 / 113
- Number of attempts: 8
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #133 / 511
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 14
- Position: #208 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #81 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 249 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #27 / 75
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #601 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1012 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #198 / 302
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #152 / 225
- Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #127 / 171
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #127 / 192
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 280 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #158 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 244 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: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #54 / 92
- Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #95 / 191
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 442 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #29 / 189
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #76 / 188
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #198 / 356
- Number of attempts: 2
lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #77 / 163
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #75 / 439
- Number of attempts: 6
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #104 / 473
- Number of attempts: 6
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #87 / 441
- Number of attempts: 4
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #61 / 111
- Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 262 entries
Complete these (weird) calculations.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #37 / 64
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #229 / 737
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #169 / 225
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #178 / 768
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #117 / 652
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #90 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #150 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 15
- Position: #100 / 270
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #83 / 258
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #373 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 5
Replacing some words - 419 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #130 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #71 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #11 / 210
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1336 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: 23
- Position: #206 / 331
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #55 / 179
- Number of attempts: 5
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #96 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #74 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #64 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 25
- Position: #86 / 143
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #135 / 639
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: 14
- Position: #232 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #150 / 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: 11
- Position: #36 / 500
- Number of attempts: 7
A Simple One - 1001 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: #416 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 456 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: #75 / 172
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: 16
- Position: #137 / 230
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #312 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #316 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #5 / 156
- Number of attempts: 9
Indentation - 497 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #32 / 168
- Number of attempts: 5
Hatsuyume - 457 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #101 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #212 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 7
- Position: #91 / 232
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #174 / 233
- 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: #99 / 338
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #126 / 229
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 559 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: 29
- Position: #76 / 200
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 12
- Position: #8 / 249
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #92 / 198
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #394 / 558
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #193 / 529
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 37
- Position: #123 / 172
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
- Position: #251 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 884 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #207 / 288
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #101 / 736
- Number of attempts: 8
Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #119 / 311
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1431 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #248 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 7
Walker Boh
Twitter: @walker_boh
Software - Engineer, working @PTVGroup