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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #2498 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #672 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1082 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1647 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #195 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2825 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 / 631
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #166 / 739
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #818 / 1578
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #454 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2219 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #657 / 1249
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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 / 166
  • 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 - 99 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #75 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #725 / 2078
  • 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 - 421 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #93 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting a glossary - 118 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 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #189 / 414
  • 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 - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #93 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 8
Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #72 / 123
  • 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 - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #157 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #23 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #230 / 1179
  • 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 - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #181 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #102 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 228 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: #64 / 92
  • 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 - 777 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: #166 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 396 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #115 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1283 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #626 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #247 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #348 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #993 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1588 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 / 509
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1533 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #284 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2399 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #357 / 727
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #646 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2019 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #398 / 637
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #97 / 397
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #426 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1324 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: #228 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #400 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1846 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: #192 / 486
  • Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #222 / 506
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #103 / 335
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #387 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #325 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 3
Jeremiah Goyette
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Software Engineer at @epicomcorp. PhD Music Theory, Eastman School of Music

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