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: 24
- Position: #2917 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #206 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #225 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 12
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #487 / 630
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #333 / 376
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #216 / 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: 21
- Position: #456 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #160 / 314
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #80 / 581
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #17 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 957 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #13 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 19
- Position: #259 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #2073 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #31 / 123
- Number of attempts: 3
Maze path - 36 entries
Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 91
- Position: #12 / 15
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #45 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #98 / 443
- Number of attempts: 14
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #346 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 6
range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #15 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #686 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #206 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
Piphilology - 131 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #14 / 51
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1221 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #881 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 6
Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #34 / 192
- Number of attempts: 6
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #223 / 356
- Number of attempts: 3
Create an alphabet diamond - 81 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
- Best score: 40
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #6 / 30
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #68 / 737
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #151 / 652
- Number of attempts: 7
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #273 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #333 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #285 / 338
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 12
- Position: #12 / 249
- Number of attempts: 6