Played Challenges
simple replacements - 1658 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #184 / 370
- Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1832 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #97 / 497
- Number of attempts: 6
Modernise code - 1333 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #138 / 307
- Number of attempts: 6
Put a cross in the square - 203 entries
Put a cross in the square
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #52 / 84
- Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 1115 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #324 / 518
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #1752 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 17
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #470 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1479 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #10 / 569
- Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #627 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #334 / 840
- Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1206 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #432 / 516
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #554 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #610 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 10
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #93 / 226
- Number of attempts: 7
html paragraph to table - 590 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 72
- Position: #98 / 123
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #568 / 700
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #265 / 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: 20
- Position: #694 / 744
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #364 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #110 / 314
- Number of attempts: 10
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2759 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #202 / 581
- Number of attempts: 6
Learn some german verbs - 531 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #38 / 131
- Number of attempts: 18
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: #79 / 209
- Number of attempts: 9
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #152 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 14
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: #75 / 266
- Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #428 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 9
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #122 / 255
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2165 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #25 / 662
- Number of attempts: 6
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 203
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #340 / 496
- Number of attempts: 2
Build a six - 272 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #8 / 92
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #90 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #72 / 385
- Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 932 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #85 / 158
- Number of attempts: 12
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #73 / 135
- Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #373 / 443
- Number of attempts: 8
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #56 / 223
- Number of attempts: 5
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #28 / 83
- Number of attempts: 2
Change your calendar - 362 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #55 / 85
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #405 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #198 / 440
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1806 / 4161
- 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: #218 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1344 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1692 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Santa's naughty / nice list - 78 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #21 / 24
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #479 / 768
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #538 / 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: 15
- Position: #2044 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #630 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 4