Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4976 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 1620
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: 54
- Position: #362 / 379
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 362 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #34 / 208
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 15
- Position: #248 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1045 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: #81 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 276
- Position: #79 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 582
- Position: #144 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #130 / 138
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 250 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #85 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #119 / 458
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #115 / 405
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 534 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #106 / 177
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 143
- Position: #79 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #37 / 523
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 46
- Position: #83 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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: 7
- Position: #20 / 244
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #27 / 243
- 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: #5 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #274 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 582 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: 31
- Position: #97 / 206
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 750 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #236 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 394 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #43 / 228
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #401 / 776
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1006 / 3671
- Number of attempts: 9
Juan C. Muller
Twitter: @juancmuller
Software developer, cyclist, cook, racquetball player.