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: 22
- Position: #639 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #852 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1648 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #411 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #712 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #421 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #46 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #103 / 700
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
- Position: #398 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #987 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2272 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #796 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1554 / 2100
- 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: 21
- Position: #39 / 75
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #163 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #202 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #167 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #92 / 136
- Number of attempts: 3
Put the months in order - 932 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #78 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #245 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1661 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #634 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1015 / 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: 11
- Position: #280 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 15
- Position: #464 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #426 / 767
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #439 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1518 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 3