Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: 25
- Position: #3203 / 7358
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4535 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #7 / 1255
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18615 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #139 / 3841
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4743 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #328 / 1878
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10785 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #462 / 3042
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1474 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: #12 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #144 / 700
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #153 / 742
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #423 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2554 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #112 / 694
- Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #33 / 314
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11346 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #571 / 4160
- Number of attempts: 8
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #110 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #18 / 141
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #435 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 10
create arrows in a list - 103 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #30 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 950 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: #28 / 265
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #76 / 287
- Number of attempts: 3
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #14 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7778 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #298 / 2095
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #11 / 85
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 118 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: 6
- Position: #29 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 948 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #5 / 254
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #21 / 165
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #126 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 251 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #45 / 91
- Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 295 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: 18
- Position: #31 / 113
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #25 / 115
- Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1049 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: 11
- Position: #23 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #53 / 266
- Number of attempts: 7
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #10 / 155
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4261 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #205 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 3
swap or reverse - 115 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #46 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #48 / 440
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #133 / 284
- Number of attempts: 4
Winning streak - 124 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #35 / 49
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #398 / 4159
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3170 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #150 / 1127
- Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 724 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #87 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #62 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1179 / 3663
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3124 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: #225 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12850 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3084 / 3944
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2436 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #358 / 735
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2925 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #107 / 764
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5028 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #395 / 1734
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #73 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1855 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #331 / 638
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #401 / 3567
- Number of attempts: 4