Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #813 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 18
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #71 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #144 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #462 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #182 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1053 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #46 / 273
- Number of attempts: 5
Aliases for cd - 849 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #40 / 150
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #456 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1281 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #106 / 630
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #268 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #172 / 700
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #48 / 635
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #182 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #479 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #347 / 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: #846 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #92 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #465 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #165 / 287
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 9
- Position: #46 / 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: 15
- Position: #19 / 81
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #259 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 6
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #4 / 161
- Number of attempts: 4
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #27 / 255
- Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #23 / 165
- Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #213 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #45 / 182
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 11
- Position: #53 / 241
- Number of attempts: 7
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #159 / 496
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #103 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #565 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #189 / 440
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #544 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #354 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 11
- Position: #79 / 578
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1096 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #129 / 692
- Number of attempts: 17
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: #259 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1567 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #428 / 767
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #458 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #1543 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #259 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 3
Alexander Bessonov
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