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: 28
- Position: #4180 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #833 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #443 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #544 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #838 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #325 / 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: 15
- Position: #217 / 635
- Number of attempts: 7
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #180 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #994 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #463 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #824 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #106 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #1115 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #104 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #55 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #63 / 120
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #68 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 159 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #13 / 85
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #89 / 123
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 123 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: #52 / 78
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #54 / 74
- Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #102 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #125 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #351 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
Change attribute to getter - 133 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #53 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #95 / 182
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 18
- Position: #183 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #125 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #46 / 68
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #70 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #110 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #131 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #282 / 440
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #42 / 284
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #119 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 788 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: #141 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2167 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 4
learn vim in short time - 232 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #93 / 158
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #644 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #118 / 351
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #98 / 268
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #274 / 293
- 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: 13
- Position: #261 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #187 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #66 / 101
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #567 / 692
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 10
- Position: #152 / 511
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 17
- Position: #894 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1561 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 18
- Position: #145 / 302
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #161 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 189 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #46 / 73
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #60 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 448 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #50 / 193
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #297 / 441
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #54 / 738
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #427 / 768
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #290 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #217 / 258
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1190 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #263 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #295 / 640
- Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1336 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: 20
- Position: #135 / 331
- Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #136 / 639
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 14
- Position: #229 / 500
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 18
- Position: #184 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
- Position: #2640 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #1269 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1