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: #4211 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #427 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #494 / 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: #1628 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #342 / 827
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #8 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #475 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #280 / 635
- Number of attempts: 11
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: #188 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #490 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 9
- Position: #28 / 314
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2436 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #1249 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 106 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #14 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 24
- Position: #223 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
- Position: #74 / 287
- Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #26 / 93
- 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: #60 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #1986 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #35 / 255
- Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #229 / 418
- 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: 11
- Position: #61 / 241
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #962 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #385 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3200 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #209 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 12
- Position: #206 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2191 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #271 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1581 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #472 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #1563 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3