Played Challenges
HS exam question - 1577 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #118 / 415
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat symbols in list - 1607 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #249 / 345
- Number of attempts: 1
Poorly indented Python comments - 1315 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #11 / 221
- Number of attempts: 9
Many duplicates - 1443 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #97 / 467
- Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1768 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #52 / 548
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #37 / 271
- Number of attempts: 15
Visual block training - 1069 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #142 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #348 / 555
- Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2490 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #149 / 705
- Number of attempts: 3
Fill in the chess board - 956 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #134 / 183
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries
Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #109 / 130
- Number of attempts: 1
Plotting some variables in python - 1660 entries
4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #182 / 347
- Number of attempts: 2
simple replacements - 1753 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #130 / 380
- Number of attempts: 6
Python dataclasses - 1127 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #181 / 283
- Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 2084
- Position: #202 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2066 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #46 / 377
- Number of attempts: 16
ssh config skills - 256 entries
Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!
- Best score: 41
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #41 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #104 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn the x - 328 entries
Turn the x to a +
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #79 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Levenshtein distance - 105 entries
Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #23 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2374 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #348 / 469
- Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1129 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 232
- Position: #523 / 523
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: 24
- Position: #3100 / 7407
- Number of attempts: 6
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 917 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #254 / 260
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #99 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #278 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #22 / 129
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple Maths - 57 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 1000
- Position: #27 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12928 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #10 / 3960
- Number of attempts: 5
A simple change - 461 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #48 / 191
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2118 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #512 / 657
- Number of attempts: 1
un-C-escape string - 58 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #47 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #189 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1043 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #553 / 659
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #115 / 138
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1552 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #204 / 580
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1421 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #252 / 552
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1477 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #121 / 405
- Number of attempts: 12
Braces or Brackets? - 959 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #28 / 307
- Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3589 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #153 / 775
- Number of attempts: 6
Flodder-challenge - 1224 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #23 / 328
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 12692 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1930 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6873 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #836 / 1683
- Number of attempts: 4
Contributed Challenges
Visual block training - 1069 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.