Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 27
- Position: #3808 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #706 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1696 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1251 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #451 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1450 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: 18
- Position: #182 / 444
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2530 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #520 / 690
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1042 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: 13
- Position: #261 / 307
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2436 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 932 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: 22
- Position: #170 / 262
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove hard line breaks - 64 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #24 / 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 99 entries
Boring math puzzle.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #30 / 40
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2550 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 279 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #162 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Checkerboard case pattern - 144 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #40 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #98 / 189
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a pandoc compatible table - 177 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #41 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #167 / 186
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 978 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #452 / 636
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #326 / 450
- Number of attempts: 3
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 174 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #52 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2