Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #34 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #87 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
Recursively Palindrome - 239 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #49 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #261 / 403
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #9 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #148 / 258
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #98 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy New Year! - 143 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #19 / 57
- Number of attempts: 4
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #126 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 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: #101 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #132 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 341 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #88 / 130
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #178 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #99 / 143
- Number of attempts: 4
Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #40 / 72
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #63 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: 12
- Position: #9 / 401
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #135 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 17
- Position: #327 / 500
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1001 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: #161 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #90 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #169 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #102 / 156
- Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 497 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #123 / 168
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 457 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #93 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 96 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #36 / 54
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #465 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: 10
- Position: #206 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #31 / 49
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #52 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #55 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #339 / 558
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #46 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #160 / 172
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #160 / 384
- Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #199 / 289
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #627 / 737
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #269 / 311
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #2259 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1180 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1