Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #6 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #370 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #258 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 9
Separate the lines - 175 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #76 / 89
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #218 / 569
- 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: 7
- Position: #196 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #29 / 630
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #506 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 18
- Position: #300 / 635
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #807 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #63 / 695
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #11 / 314
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #234 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 6
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #96 / 271
- Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 141 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #19 / 100
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #61 / 141
- Number of attempts: 3
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #36 / 37
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #369 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 19
- Position: #100 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Position: #17 / 81
- Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #11 / 120
- Number of attempts: 4
underscore_to_camelCase - 162 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #68 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7797 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #974 / 2099
- 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: #49 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 124 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #17 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Change attribute to getter - 133 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #36 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #70 / 125
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #143 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #71 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #283 / 384
- Number of attempts: 4
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #3 / 266
- Number of attempts: 6
Entries sort - 81 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #10 / 38
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #13 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #14 / 274
- Number of attempts: 4
swap or reverse - 115 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #61 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 312 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #80 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #13 / 86
- Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #25 / 440
- Number of attempts: 4
remove all lines in first part - 190 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #34 / 65
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #85 / 284
- Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 234 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #4 / 93
- Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #74 / 237
- Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #79 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 407 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #91 / 201
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #156 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #89 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #105 / 351
- Number of attempts: 3
Suffix sort - 254 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #59 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #73 / 268
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #167 / 293
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #483 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #348 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #692 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #534 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #76 / 439
- Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #336 / 473
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #284 / 736
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #176 / 767
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #353 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 6
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #138 / 194
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #203 / 512
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1475 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #161 / 557
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #449 / 736
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #1396 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
underscore_to_camelCase - 162 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
we’re going to need a bigger bot
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