Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4368 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #407 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #23 / 213
- 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: 23
- Position: #2690 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #565 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1258 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
Aliases for cd - 849 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #52 / 150
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #250 / 569
- 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: #1047 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #147 / 516
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #250 / 450
- 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: 10
- Position: #200 / 314
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2897 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #249 / 581
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #57 / 211
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #199 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
Sudoku table - 70 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #9 / 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Python challenge - 147 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #10 / 44
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #115 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #713 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 468 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #39 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2410 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #42 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
- Position: #78 / 249
- Number of attempts: 2
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