Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4362 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #333 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #168 / 296
- Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 1114 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #482 / 517
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 31
- Position: #5663 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 9
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #212 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #158 / 196
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #636 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2546 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1762 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #534 / 840
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 32
- Position: #87 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1451 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 17
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #580 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #731 / 827
- 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: 28
- Position: #322 / 376
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 319 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #108 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1197 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
- Position: #303 / 314
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3546 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #267 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1880 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #410 / 418
- 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: 17
- Position: #545 / 662
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #218 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #1166 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #431 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3839 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1004 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #660 / 692
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2734 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #401 / 441
- 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: 36
- Position: #705 / 737
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #641 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1419 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #534 / 640
- 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: 17
- Position: #326 / 401
- 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: 46
- Position: #704 / 736
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #1571 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 1
Shunichi Kanade
Twitter: @shunkana
started in dot-coms during bubble years, crash, switched to finance industry, back to software industry because I love it. Java mostly, Ruby is my passion.