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: #411 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 7
Prime Numbers - 344 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #13 / 102
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #125 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #546 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #55 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 252 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #72 / 91
- Number of attempts: 2
Square numbers - 99 entries
Boring math puzzle.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #15 / 40
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #139 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #56 / 578
- Number of attempts: 6
Split the words - 356 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #101 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #144 / 511
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #147 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 77 entries
Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #36 / 40
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 280 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #7 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #10 / 188
- Number of attempts: 2
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 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: 31
- Position: #4 / 76
- Number of attempts: 8
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #122 / 738
- Number of attempts: 4
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 227 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: #25 / 68
- Number of attempts: 4
Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #25 / 225
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #641 / 768
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #36 / 652
- Number of attempts: 6
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #25 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #36 / 194
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #47 / 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: 6
- Position: #42 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #125 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #134 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #31 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #49 / 210
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
- Position: #41 / 331
- Number of attempts: 9
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #108 / 639
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #114 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: 12
- Position: #43 / 401
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 21
- Position: #417 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2 / 156
- Number of attempts: 9
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 20
- Position: #53 / 384
- Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #58 / 737
- Number of attempts: 10
Joseph J. Piché
Twitter: @jjpiche
I may or may not be an Android & iOS programmer. I may or may not have studied Philosophy.