Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33677 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: 32
- Position: #5858 / 7431
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4637 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #910 / 1272
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18751 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1786 / 3869
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4813 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1285 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10876 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #38 / 3069
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #494 / 703
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #586 / 1629
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11473 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2608 / 4205
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #355 / 588
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 533 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: 24
- Position: #68 / 133
- Number of attempts: 5
Stairstep digits - 394 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #103 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #815 / 1267
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 117 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #49 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: 17
- Position: #218 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #96 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #53 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 522 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #144 / 167
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #364 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #143 / 184
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #216 / 269
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #91 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #268 / 444
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 223 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #75 / 83
- Number of attempts: 6
Happy TvvO - 427 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #127 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16007 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #735 / 4186
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #861 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #341 / 354
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #233 / 271
- Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 15
- Position: #414 / 585
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #389 / 437
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1257 / 3687
- Number of attempts: 5
Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #17 / 38
- Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #165 / 196
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries
Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #8 / 16
- Number of attempts: 4
The name of the game - 668 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #228 / 361
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #307 / 446
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #302 / 755
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #102 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2140 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #423 / 664
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #250 / 263
- Number of attempts: 3
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #276 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #409 / 652
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1358 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #183 / 336
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #120 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 881 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #79 / 205
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1935 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #417 / 654
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #175 / 407
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2010 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #283 / 517
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1052 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: #467 / 666
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #333 / 460
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #344 / 410
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #73 / 165
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1354 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #242 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #207 / 248
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #242 / 345
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse characters in a line - 776 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #76 / 267
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #82 / 215
- Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #381 / 593
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #207 / 573
- Number of attempts: 5