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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: 23
Position: #2508 / 7364
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #677 / 1257
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1085 / 3842
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4751 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1652 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #195 / 630
Number of attempts: 8

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: 15
Position: #205 / 635
Number of attempts: 6

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: #166 / 744
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #822 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #457 / 695
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2225 / 4164
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #664 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #79 / 171
Number of attempts: 3

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: #61 / 120
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #78 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #733 / 2100
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #65 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #57 / 161
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #94 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting a glossary - 123 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: #46 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 418
Number of attempts: 4

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #57 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #93 / 182
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #72 / 125
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: 20
Position: #212 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #158 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 155
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 1186
Number of attempts: 5

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #69 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #182 / 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: 23
Position: #105 / 284
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffled numbers - 234 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #65 / 93
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: 9
Position: #113 / 237
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #168 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #115 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1287 / 4161
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #629 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #250 / 351
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #350 / 578
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #993 / 3666
Number of attempts: 3

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: #346 / 511
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1536 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #288 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #362 / 737
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #653 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #406 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 403
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #426 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #229 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #403 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 13
Position: #198 / 500
Number of attempts: 4

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #103 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #397 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #338 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette

Software Engineer at @epicomcorp. PhD Music Theory, Eastman School of Music