Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #44 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: #91 / 383
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #5 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: 16
- Position: #287 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2049 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: 15
- Position: #249 / 523
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1064 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: #108 / 670
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 123
- Position: #48 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #49 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Letters are numbers - 167 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #55 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #8 / 90
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #133 / 461
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #152 / 413
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #118 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 552 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #50 / 181
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 548 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #152 / 189
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 113
- Position: #29 / 101
- Number of attempts: 6
Dumb to smart - 100 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #34 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #316 / 534
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 320 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #79 / 115
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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: 9
- Position: #177 / 249
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #33 / 52
- Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 441 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #36 / 143
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #31 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #15 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 348
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: 36
- Position: #146 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #150 / 217
- Number of attempts: 6
Get rid of html tags - 415 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #50 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1649 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #256 / 609
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1501 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #25 / 582
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #257 / 816
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7247 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #603 / 1789
- Number of attempts: 1