Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #740 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #189 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #253 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #215 / 569
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #88 / 840
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #17 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #136 / 376
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #450 / 635
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #42 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #202 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 147 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #28 / 44
- Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2165 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #30 / 662
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: 14
- Position: #5 / 203
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #5 / 223
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3684 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #326 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2104 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 3
Dehamlizing - 180 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #13 / 69
- Number of attempts: 4
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #29 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #142 / 439
- Number of attempts: 3
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 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: #8 / 56
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #103 / 736
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #718 / 767
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2078 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #26 / 651
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #19 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #28 / 258
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #153 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 5
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #120 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #29 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
remove dupes from array - 1336 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: 27
- Position: #266 / 331
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 16
- Position: #297 / 500
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #90 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #335 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 5