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