Played Challenges
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: #475 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #395 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1074 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #377 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #356 / 633
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #54 / 378
- Number of attempts: 11
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: #95 / 453
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #14 / 702
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #99 / 639
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #536 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 5
Number Sort - 307 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #42 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #642 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 532 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #34 / 132
- Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #453 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #186 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 5
Paragraph sort - 431 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #10 / 124
- Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #179 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #7 / 183
- 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: 11
- Position: #30 / 243
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #18 / 157
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #216 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #406 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #172 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #962 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #147 / 695
- Number of attempts: 16
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: 14
- Position: #298 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #679 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #513 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #417 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 7