Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #989 / 7450
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #176 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18784 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1150 / 3878
- Number of attempts: 7
Separate the lines - 191 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #33 / 95
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #502 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10899 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2824 / 3078
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #119 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1524 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: #41 / 463
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2922 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #202 / 706
- Number of attempts: 9
Copy three lines - 2875 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #373 / 641
- Number of attempts: 6
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #54 / 328
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11500 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #941 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 119 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #9 / 61
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 403 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: #39 / 181
- Number of attempts: 2
Flatten repo - 30 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #10 / 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 920 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: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #51 / 219
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #76 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple addition - 332 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #26 / 124
- Number of attempts: 7
Adam's challenge - 1008 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: #40 / 275
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a table - 333 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #10 / 106
- Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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: #87 / 294
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #299 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 985 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #37 / 260
- Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 327 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #40 / 98
- Number of attempts: 3
Add Go XML to structure tags - 182 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #10 / 73
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2430 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #65 / 451
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #318 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #606 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1155 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #807 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #479 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13101 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #488 / 3768
- Number of attempts: 4