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: #499 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #70 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #45 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1160 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1852 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #43 / 630
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #357 / 635
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #443 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #338 / 695
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #650 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #103 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #661 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #57 / 120
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #191 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 11
- Position: #65 / 85
- Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #92 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #185 / 418
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Position: #115 / 241
- Number of attempts: 6
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #103 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 624 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #82 / 249
- Number of attempts: 8
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #74 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #214 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #219 / 440
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 10
- Position: #206 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #411 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #342 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #248 / 351
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 43
- Position: #95 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #966 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #243 / 692
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #236 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #681 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 5
Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #90 / 193
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #394 / 768
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #889 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #1503 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2