Played Challenges
Quicksort - 1844 entries
We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #111 / 404
- Number of attempts: 8
Paste a column after a column - 2488 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #183 / 538
- Number of attempts: 5
Visual block training - 1069 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #42 / 203
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 11
- Position: #149 / 555
- Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2484 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #324 / 703
- 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: 34
- Position: #44 / 347
- Number of attempts: 8
swap number pairs - 2064 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #47 / 375
- Number of attempts: 14
Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 309 entries
Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #4 / 56
- Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4450 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #185 / 1089
- Number of attempts: 8
Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: 20
- Position: #52 / 467
- Number of attempts: 13
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 950 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #134 / 303
- Number of attempts: 6
xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 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: #84 / 220
- Number of attempts: 4
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 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: #34 / 169
- Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #223 / 522
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #27 / 229
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: #2237 / 7397
- Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #285 / 1532
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18705 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #687 / 3855
- Number of attempts: 11
Quote modules - 1072 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #69 / 279
- Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #16 / 845
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10841 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #628 / 3058
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2025 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #5 / 521
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #809 / 1157
- Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #125 / 855
- Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7897 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #778 / 1872
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #704 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11417 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1419 / 4181
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7891 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #603 / 2121
- Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 2028 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #43 / 499
- Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1067 / 4170
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2471 / 3678
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12918 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #11 / 3957
- Number of attempts: 4
Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #4 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #226 / 774
- Number of attempts: 4
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 998 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #13 / 190
- Number of attempts: 19
Make it more readable - 1982 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #201 / 645
- Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1347 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #85 / 334
- Number of attempts: 12
HTML to Haml - 878 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #18 / 204
- Number of attempts: 17
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #11 / 206
- Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1929 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #75 / 651
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #7 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 875 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #58 / 218
- Number of attempts: 15
Shebangs for all - 1961 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #68 / 506
- Number of attempts: 7
Reverse and count - 470 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #15 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #54 / 457
- Number of attempts: 4
Compile C - 398 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #20 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 383 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #15 / 224
- Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #202 / 577
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #251 / 551
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 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: #120 / 403
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3569 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #152 / 770
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #678 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 6