Played Challenges
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: 16
- Position: #39 / 212
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #27 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 4
paste indent correction - JS - 103 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #8 / 58
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #46 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #7 / 57
- Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 99 entries
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #16 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #107 / 748
- Number of attempts: 3
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 230 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #17 / 70
- 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: 32
- Position: #45 / 227
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #18 / 772
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #194 / 653
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #4 / 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: 14
- Position: #6 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #13 / 272
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #4 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
un-C-escape string - 58 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #19 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #88 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 6
The meaning - 566 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #42 / 360
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #41 / 188
- Number of attempts: 9
Replacing some words - 420 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #13 / 149
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #24 / 147
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #16 / 643
- Number of attempts: 7
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #39 / 212
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 17
- Position: #34 / 333
- Number of attempts: 11
Alphabetize the directory - 284 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #5 / 100
- Number of attempts: 7
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 508 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: 23
- Position: #12 / 149
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 24
- Position: #8 / 73
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 19
- Position: #43 / 180
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 22
- Position: #28 / 68
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #28 / 115
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #121 / 517
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 13
- Position: #68 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 7