Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33613 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: #2931 / 7417
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #206 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18725 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #225 / 3862
- Number of attempts: 12
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #488 / 634
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: #337 / 380
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #218 / 703
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2872 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #459 / 640
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: #166 / 322
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #80 / 588
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 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 / 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 984 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 / 270
- Number of attempts: 5
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: #263 / 291
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7904 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #2095 / 2126
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #31 / 125
- Number of attempts: 3
Maze path - 48 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: #14 / 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #45 / 140
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2416 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #100 / 447
- Number of attempts: 14
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #346 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 6
range(10) digit rotation - 38 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #17 / 22
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #686 / 4179
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #206 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 5
Piphilology - 144 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: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #15 / 52
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1221 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12930 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #885 / 3962
- Number of attempts: 6
Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #36 / 196
- Number of attempts: 6
The name of the game - 665 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #223 / 360
- Number of attempts: 3
Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #8 / 32
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #68 / 754
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #151 / 663
- Number of attempts: 7
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #273 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 687 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #338 / 407
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #289 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 771 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 / 265
- Number of attempts: 6