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: 22
- Position: #1174 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 10
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #199 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #347 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #532 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 7
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #127 / 630
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #97 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #64 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
- Position: #225 / 376
- 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: #68 / 450
- Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2 / 700
- Number of attempts: 8
Array propagate - 319 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #114 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #170 / 695
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #80 / 314
- Number of attempts: 5
Flip the bit - 120 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #12 / 71
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2563 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 29
- Position: #101 / 131
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #6 / 138
- Number of attempts: 5
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #34 / 141
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #1258 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 310 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: #37 / 117
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #100 / 287
- Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #329 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 8
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #239 / 418
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #20 / 662
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
- Position: #140 / 203
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #62 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #65 / 385
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #343 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #80 / 440
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #829 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 8
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #65 / 293
- Number of attempts: 12
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: 11
- Position: #90 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1211 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #16 / 511
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #283 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #844 / 3946
- 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: 29
- Position: #632 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #412 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #926 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #6 / 185
- Number of attempts: 18
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #6 / 202
- Number of attempts: 9
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #239 / 512
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 275 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #90 / 109
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #2197 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1
Dominic Z
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