Played Challenges
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: #34 / 213
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #12 / 166
- Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1114 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #68 / 517
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #2102 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 20
- Position: #25 / 254
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 15
- Position: #9 / 196
- Number of attempts: 9
Add text at some column - 154 entries
Complete golang struct statement.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #33 / 60
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #315 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 10
- Position: #91 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #628 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 8
Right Align Part of the line - 117 entries
The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #32 / 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1053 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #136 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 36
- Position: #47 / 150
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #82 / 569
- Number of attempts: 3
Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #62 / 224
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1436 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
- Position: #226 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #27 / 68
- Number of attempts: 6
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #46 / 254
- Number of attempts: 6
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #94 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #473 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #184 / 516
- Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #744 / 1144
- 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: 12
- Position: #105 / 826
- Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #307 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 4
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #114 / 226
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 19
- Position: #85 / 376
- Number of attempts: 8
html paragraph to table - 590 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #56 / 123
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 17
- Position: #132 / 450
- Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #86 / 174
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #62 / 700
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 13
- Position: #158 / 635
- Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #380 / 744
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #644 / 1585
- 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: #139 / 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: #1357 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #314 / 581
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #219 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 11
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: #93 / 266
- Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #63 / 261
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #539 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 4
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #35 / 61
- 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: 12
- Position: #271 / 662
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #117 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #75 / 496
- Number of attempts: 10
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #74 / 242
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 5
- Position: #224 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #68 / 259
- Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #157 / 443
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 29
- Position: #82 / 223
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #470 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1007 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #279 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 12
- Position: #231 / 578
- Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1160 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #64 / 246
- Number of attempts: 10
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1497 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #500 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1078 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #430 / 767
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #259 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #1812 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 3