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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #54 / 7384
Number of attempts: 6

Prime Numbers - 345 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 52
Position: #59 / 102
Number of attempts: 5

Word Blender - 147 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 67
Position: #38 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #84 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #905 / 1604
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 641 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #105 / 212
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 389 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #25 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #103 / 371
Number of attempts: 5

Missing Library and a Typo - 860 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: 21
Position: #153 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 27
Position: #2005 / 2114
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2407 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #351 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 222 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #43 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Changing URL path in CSS - 136 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 42
Position: #26 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Create a pandoc compatible table - 185 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Best score: 32
Best player score: 44
Position: #31 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 194 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #31 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Recursively Palindrome - 245 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #61 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #68 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #302 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #342 / 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: 12
Position: #167 / 410
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 498 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #91 / 197
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: 15
Position: #39 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

constructor - 181 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 87
Position: #21 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #178 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #674 / 1742
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #72 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Calculate the table totals - 133 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 59
Position: #30 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #35 / 188
Number of attempts: 5

Replacing some words - 420 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #56 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 213 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 77
Position: #12 / 62
Number of attempts: 10

Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #97 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #122 / 643
Number of attempts: 6

Line Zipper - 454 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #142 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1345 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: 22
Position: #154 / 333
Number of attempts: 2

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 97 entries

Same class but reverse!

Best score: 80
Best player score: 115
Position: #18 / 39
Number of attempts: 4

Alphabetize the directory - 284 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 40
Position: #81 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data - 196 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #41 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #135 / 180
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 157 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #67 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Sort entries based on date - 364 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #8 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

Refactor to Helpers - 49 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

Best score: 147
Best player score: 210
Position: #9 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Here, piggy, piggy... - 76 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 73
Position: #6 / 22
Number of attempts: 9

Happy New Year! - 144 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #28 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 663 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #51 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 263 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #39 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #36 / 97
Number of attempts: 6

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 392 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #111 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

Before there was Farmville... - 98 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 220
Position: #25 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 843 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 35
Position: #88 / 203
Number of attempts: 4

expand a list comprehension (python) - 302 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 43
Position: #23 / 107
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat long lines - 346 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #100 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #108 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #56 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 149 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Getters & Setters: Java - 206 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 99
Position: #16 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

Solve the Sokoban - 165 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #31 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Java Array2List - 227 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 85
Position: #26 / 85
Number of attempts: 5

The holy-grail may help - 352 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #100 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: #209 / 402
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 81
Position: #18 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

Assignment Alignment - 842 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #20 / 217
Number of attempts: 9

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: #109 / 502
Number of attempts: 8

A Simple One - 1009 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: #234 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 120
Position: #39 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 372 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #15 / 135
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse and count - 459 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: 33
Position: #145 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 238 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #48 / 86
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 230
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: #211 / 455
Number of attempts: 5

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #209 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #61 / 159
Number of attempts: 4

Indentation - 499 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #118 / 170
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 467 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #47 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

Turn this csv list into queries - 205 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 113
Position: #28 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #108 / 517
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the Haiku - 276 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #24 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #130 / 239
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 366 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 237
Number of attempts: 4

Almost encrypted - 199 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #74 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #47 / 340
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat some Python - 590 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #48 / 233
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat a C golf submission - 574 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #35 / 203
Number of attempts: 5

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: 13
Position: #38 / 257
Number of attempts: 2

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 190 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #40 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #80 / 202
Number of attempts: 5

Remember FizzBuzz? - 686 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 62
Position: #119 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #62 / 567
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #309 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #71 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 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: 22
Position: #254 / 397
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 930 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #82 / 295
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #270 / 758
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 36
Position: #163 / 321
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2114 / 3626
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #327 / 1652
Number of attempts: 2