Played Challenges
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #81 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
Capitalize the Names - 361 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #8 / 91
- Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1115 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #38 / 518
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #66 / 225
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 22
- Position: #988 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 10
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: #552 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #262 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 10
Separate the lines - 175 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #31 / 89
- Number of attempts: 3
Palindrome numbers - 21 entries
For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #4 / 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1448 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #334 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 19
- Position: #36 / 376
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #40 / 450
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #53 / 314
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #940 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2 / 56
- Number of attempts: 4
Todo list specification - 385 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #35 / 176
- Number of attempts: 3
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #46 / 209
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #39 / 266
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a table - 325 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #6 / 104
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #297 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 4
Hello ${world} - 299 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #5 / 94
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #48 / 443
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #603 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1152 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #798 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3