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: 25
- Position: #3341 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #763 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1264 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #253 / 569
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #675 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #200 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #603 / 630
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #280 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #190 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #404 / 700
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 19
- Position: #383 / 635
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #613 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #125 / 314
- Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1282 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #453 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #187 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 19
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: 26
- Position: #242 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #41 / 120
- Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1380 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #174 / 662
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #172 / 385
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #323 / 443
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #444 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #134 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2674 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #225 / 578
- Number of attempts: 5
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #145 / 247
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 16
- Position: #655 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1739 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #250 / 356
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #80 / 737
- Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #657 / 768
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #131 / 270
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1430 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #45 / 639
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #101 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 11
- Position: #55 / 500
- Number of attempts: 16
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #44 / 454
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #251 / 512
- Number of attempts: 6
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #184 / 558
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #225 / 529
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #1767 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #1011 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 2
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