Played Challenges
New teacher - 1002 entries
Update the details of the new CS teacher.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #78 / 216
- Number of attempts: 8
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 604 entries
Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #31 / 118
- Number of attempts: 14
months to html list items - 1032 entries
Turn the months into list items.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #69 / 280
- Number of attempts: 3
Quicksort - 1968 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: 7
- Position: #149 / 434
- Number of attempts: 13
Find fix point of cos - 1403 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #215 / 416
- Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2540 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #126 / 554
- Number of attempts: 9
Reformat symbols in list - 1621 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #104 / 348
- Number of attempts: 10
Many duplicates - 1445 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #203 / 468
- Number of attempts: 4
delete swap - 1786 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #190 / 555
- Number of attempts: 3
Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries
Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #71 / 209
- Number of attempts: 14
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #543 / 708
- Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #111 / 270
- Number of attempts: 4
simple replacements - 1762 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #157 / 381
- Number of attempts: 6
Inverting Lines - 1900 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #268 / 511
- Number of attempts: 8
Python dataclasses - 1136 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #111 / 284
- Number of attempts: 9
Count to 100 in word form - 138 entries
Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.
- Best score: 53
- Best player score: 91
- Position: #25 / 29
- Number of attempts: 14
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #122 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1400 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #163 / 323
- Number of attempts: 10
HS Final exam vimgolf - 898 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #86 / 237
- Number of attempts: 10
Rural Post - 4492 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #476 / 1103
- Number of attempts: 3
Satisfy the go linter - 2393 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: 21
- Position: #199 / 472
- Number of attempts: 16
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 957 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #201 / 306
- Number of attempts: 6
Multiline to Single Line - 703 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #284 / 302
- Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 294 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #21 / 65
- Number of attempts: 17
Yo To Hello - 1133 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #376 / 526
- Number of attempts: 2
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #174 / 262
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4637 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #523 / 1272
- Number of attempts: 6
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 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: 21
- Position: #126 / 249
- Number of attempts: 8
Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #674 / 871
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1508 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: #270 / 458
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2362 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #391 / 754
- Number of attempts: 6
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: 19
- Position: #308 / 322
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11473 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3185 / 4205
- Number of attempts: 3
Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #103 / 213
- Number of attempts: 10
Triangle of arrows - 199 entries
I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #29 / 44
- Number of attempts: 5
Manual SQL - 160 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #16 / 50
- Number of attempts: 9
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 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: 16
- Position: #159 / 208
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 655 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #195 / 256
- Number of attempts: 5
Condensed Cases - 804 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: 14
- Position: #150 / 247
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16007 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2036 / 4186
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12951 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1869 / 3966
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #41 / 201
- Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #258 / 755
- Number of attempts: 8
Switch function arguments - 2140 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #331 / 664
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1005 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #82 / 180
- Number of attempts: 7
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #247 / 407
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2010 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: 12
- Position: #162 / 517
- Number of attempts: 7
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #57 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 430 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #80 / 141
- Number of attempts: 4
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #29 / 193
- Number of attempts: 13
Simple text editing with Vim - 12897 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1950 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7040 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #396 / 1729
- Number of attempts: 7