Played Challenges
HS exam question - 1497 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #6 / 393
- Number of attempts: 14
Reformat symbols in list - 1466 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #17 / 322
- Number of attempts: 10
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 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 / 145
- Number of attempts: 13
delete swap - 1522 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #124 / 476
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1175 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 / 246
- Number of attempts: 8
Fix the shell script! - 2338 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #91 / 540
- Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 1001 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #28 / 183
- Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 2346 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #220 / 663
- Number of attempts: 9
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #46 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1060 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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 / 364
- Number of attempts: 4
formatted text to markdown - 183 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) - 661 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... - 97 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 239
- Position: #36 / 47
- Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #67 / 202
- Number of attempts: 6
expand a list comprehension (python) - 301 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: #38 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 472 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #92 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #275 / 639
- Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 205 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: #41 / 56
- Number of attempts: 4
Java Array2List - 225 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 89
- Position: #30 / 83
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #70 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #17 / 401
- Number of attempts: 6
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #169 / 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: 12
- Position: #96 / 500
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #162 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #55 / 134
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 456 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: #61 / 172
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #94 / 230
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #442 / 454
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #180 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 204 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 119
- Position: #45 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #311 / 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: 50
- Position: #94 / 109
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 9
- Position: #174 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 459 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #56 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #79 / 229
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 556 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 / 200
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: #142 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1475 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #233 / 557
- 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: 51
- Position: #158 / 172
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 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: #333 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 884 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: #179 / 288
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #246 / 736
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 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 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #572 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 3
Contributed Challenges
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?