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: 22
- Position: #1499 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1068 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2706 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #414 / 569
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #597 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #297 / 840
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #84 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #504 / 826
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #272 / 376
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #644 / 700
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #376 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 303 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #146 / 162
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #607 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #105 / 314
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2728 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #484 / 581
- Number of attempts: 1
For all cases. - 141 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #60 / 100
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #1052 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #77 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
- Position: #71 / 266
- Number of attempts: 8
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #67 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #59 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #409 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 5
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 21 entries
I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #9 / 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #65 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #212 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #263 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 301 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #72 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 407 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #103 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #163 / 182
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #170 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #49 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #119 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #415 / 662
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #384 / 443
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #985 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #196 / 284
- Number of attempts: 2
Conway sequence - 23 entries
Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #14 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2253 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #845 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1316 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #23 / 511
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2960 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2078 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #157 / 651
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1615 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #1675 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2