Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: 28
- Position: #4129 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #665 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2026 / 3842
- 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: #365 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 13
- Position: #161 / 744
- 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: #442 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #516 / 695
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11358 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2181 / 4163
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #119 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #950 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 162 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #48 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7797 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #898 / 2099
- 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: 24
- Position: #110 / 123
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #170 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #55 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
- Position: #80 / 113
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #59 / 125
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 18
- Position: #179 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #157 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #72 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #931 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #122 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #318 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #81 / 284
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #87 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1643 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #624 / 1129
- 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: 16
- Position: #506 / 578
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2761 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #526 / 692
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
- Position: #344 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #880 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1526 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #359 / 736
- Number of attempts: 1
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 227 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #3 / 68
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #392 / 767
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2078 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #283 / 651
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #887 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1498 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #370 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 3
Andres Araya
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