Played Challenges
Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #145 / 523
- Number of attempts: 12
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 615 entries
The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #82 / 148
- Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1650 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #160 / 514
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1231 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #88 / 260
- Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 1047 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #87 / 195
- Number of attempts: 8
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1649 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #154 / 551
- Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2472 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #168 / 699
- Number of attempts: 3
Fill in the chess board - 933 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #65 / 180
- Number of attempts: 4
Plotting some variables in python - 1605 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: 35
- Position: #76 / 345
- Number of attempts: 4
Lowercase first characters - 484 entries
This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #141 / 181
- Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 324 entries
Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #60 / 126
- Number of attempts: 3
simple replacements - 1710 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #199 / 378
- Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1870 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #254 / 505
- Number of attempts: 5
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 312 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #25 / 200
- Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1368 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #234 / 316
- Number of attempts: 3
Enumerate Bullets - 309 entries
We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #72 / 83
- Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2023 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #170 / 373
- Number of attempts: 7
HS Final exam vimgolf - 892 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #138 / 234
- Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4427 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #437 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 6
Satisfy the go linter - 2360 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: 26
- Position: #292 / 465
- Number of attempts: 4
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #175 / 302
- Number of attempts: 6
Multiline to Single Line - 680 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #201 / 298
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1114 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: 30
- Position: #147 / 228
- Number of attempts: 13
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #195 / 257
- Number of attempts: 3
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #149 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #735 / 1530
- Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1066 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #194 / 278
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #92 / 101
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #99 / 256
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #296 / 639
- Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #279 / 698
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3173 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #193 / 273
- Number of attempts: 3
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 64 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: 18
- Position: #29 / 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #258 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 106 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #68 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #72 / 121
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort files from hosts - 180 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #33 / 75
- Number of attempts: 5
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #139 / 157
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple format (2) - 335 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #39 / 70
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1009 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #294 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #146 / 238
- Number of attempts: 3
Condensed Cases - 794 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: 15
- Position: #173 / 244
- Number of attempts: 7
Word frequency alignment - 278 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #108 / 159
- Number of attempts: 6
Stairs Indenting - 452 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #162 / 195
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #178 / 653
- Number of attempts: 5
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #128 / 410
- Number of attempts: 4
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #197 / 272
- Number of attempts: 8
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #64 / 212
- Number of attempts: 6
imports alignment (python) - 663 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #68 / 196
- Number of attempts: 15
Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #184 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 842 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #170 / 217
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #360 / 455
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 467 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #16 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #249 / 340
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: 16
- Position: #155 / 257
- Number of attempts: 5