Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4427 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #340 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #171 / 302
- Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #487 / 522
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #5675 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 9
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #215 / 257
- Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #162 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #644 / 1530
- Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2552 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1769 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #535 / 843
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #88 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1454 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 17
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #581 / 633
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #742 / 839
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: #324 / 378
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 332 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #110 / 117
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1211 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 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: #305 / 316
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3554 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 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: #268 / 288
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1890 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #413 / 421
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2174 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: #546 / 664
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: #220 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #1168 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #433 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3842 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1006 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #663 / 695
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2736 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #402 / 442
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #715 / 748
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #642 / 653
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1423 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #535 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: #327 / 402
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #725 / 758
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #1607 / 1652
- 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.