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: 32
- Position: #5754 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #113 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2840 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #418 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #122 / 700
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 13
- Position: #35 / 635
- Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2279 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #163 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #668 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #904 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 6
7th Birthday - 186 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: 19
- Position: #10 / 73
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #24 / 123
- Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #119 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #207 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #162 / 182
- 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: 16
- Position: #130 / 241
- Number of attempts: 5
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #36 / 136
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #946 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #56 / 274
- Number of attempts: 9
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #324 / 440
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2528 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #354 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1032 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
- Position: #253 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2333 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1526 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
John Barbero Unenge
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Technical Artist at Ghost Games. User of Debian/Ubuntu + XMonad. Host of Göteborg C++ Meetup and co-host of Gothenburg retro gaming club. Also cats.