Played Challenges
HS exam question - 1124 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #6 / 306
- Number of attempts: 14
Reformat symbols in list - 1021 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #17 / 233
- Number of attempts: 10
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries
The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #14 / 108
- Number of attempts: 13
delete swap - 1095 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #124 / 356
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 926 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #35 / 208
- Number of attempts: 8
Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #79 / 418
- Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 780 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #21 / 146
- Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 1981 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #220 / 564
- Number of attempts: 9
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 649 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #46 / 374
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4749 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1050 / 1574
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #138 / 361
- Number of attempts: 4
formatted text to markdown - 181 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
- Best score: 70
- Best player score: 77
- Position: #28 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 657 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #134 / 194
- Number of attempts: 2
Before there was Farmville... - 95 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 239
- Position: #35 / 46
- Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 838 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #67 / 201
- Number of attempts: 6
expand a list comprehension (python) - 291 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #37 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 451 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #90 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1845 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #272 / 634
- Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 190 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 132
- Position: #39 / 54
- Number of attempts: 4
Java Array2List - 218 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 89
- Position: #29 / 82
- Number of attempts: 4
The holy-grail may help - 334 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #70 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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: #17 / 394
- Number of attempts: 6
Assignment Alignment - 824 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #168 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1823 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: 12
- Position: #93 / 482
- Number of attempts: 6
A Simple One - 973 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: #162 / 633
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 366 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #55 / 132
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 432 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 168
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 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: #93 / 229
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #437 / 449
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #171 / 390
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 119
- Position: #45 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1260 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #309 / 505
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 272 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: 50
- Position: #94 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 486 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: #170 / 228
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #56 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 576 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #79 / 227
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 546 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #53 / 197
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 696 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: 16
- Position: #140 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1416 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #223 / 540
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 524 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #150 / 164
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1220 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: 26
- Position: #314 / 358
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 760 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #164 / 265
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #224 / 691
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11897 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2202 / 3482
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6251 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #555 / 1544
- Number of attempts: 3
Contributed Challenges
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?