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: 27
- Position: #3796 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #682 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1187 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #375 / 625
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2869 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #524 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 24
- Position: #534 / 631
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #614 / 739
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #984 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2530 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #456 / 690
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #3728 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 997 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #122 / 265
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #894 / 1249
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #82 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #97 / 120
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 160 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #51 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1236 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #48 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
7th Birthday - 185 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #47 / 72
- Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 72
- Position: #144 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #98 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 497 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #145 / 163
- Number of attempts: 3
Array of characters - 135 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #23 / 41
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 982 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #203 / 414
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #49 / 69
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 248 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #54 / 90
- Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 287 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #80 / 112
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 405 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #74 / 114
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 775 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #160 / 181
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 485 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #67 / 123
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 17
- Position: #168 / 241
- Number of attempts: 3
A grid of punctuation - 120 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #21 / 56
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #93 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2345 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #292 / 439
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #122 / 265
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 562 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #128 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4228 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #937 / 1179
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 765 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #127 / 273
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #219 / 438
- Number of attempts: 5
Fix the XML - 962 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #138 / 280
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #209 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #139 / 240
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3161 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #956 / 1124
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 987 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #251 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 713 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #94 / 265
- Number of attempts: 5
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #198 / 293
- 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: #351 / 576
- Number of attempts: 3
Two become one - 710 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #104 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #376 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1157 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #87 / 245
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1019 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3408 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #485 / 689
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 11
- Position: #281 / 509
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 16
- Position: #627 / 1066
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2656 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1012 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #108 / 302
- Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #227 / 435
- Number of attempts: 3
Saving the hashes(#) - 1977 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #341 / 470
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #288 / 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: #359 / 727
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #393 / 759
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2019 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #281 / 637
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1397 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1930 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #288 / 636
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 19
- Position: #115 / 328
- Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1849 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #10 / 636
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 12
- Position: #141 / 486
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #197 / 699
- Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1507 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #368 / 1561
- Number of attempts: 5