Played Challenges
Interweave two blocks of text - 631 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: 21
- Position: #178 / 211
- Number of attempts: 4
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #104 / 111
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #607 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: #145 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #237 / 258
- Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 419 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #78 / 148
- Number of attempts: 3
formatted text to markdown - 183 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
- Best score: 70
- Best player score: 81
- Position: #47 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #207 / 210
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #119 / 148
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #90 / 97
- Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #44 / 96
- Number of attempts: 3
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #139 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 301 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #70 / 106
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #72 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #120 / 143
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #442 / 639
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #46 / 205
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 17
- Position: #325 / 500
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1001 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: #126 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #67 / 85
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #151 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #307 / 512
- Number of attempts: 5
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #40 / 233
- Number of attempts: 3
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #32 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #156 / 338
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #101 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 368 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #206 / 217
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
James Cash
Twitter: @jamesnvc
Computer engineer that loves programming, math, science, and lifting heavy shit.