Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 764 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #326 / 409
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #30 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 3
Cartesian product - 255 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #32 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #54 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: 30
- Position: #35 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 878 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #83 / 204
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 358 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: 19
- Position: #78 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #82 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 438 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #93 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 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: 26
- Position: #34 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #61 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #154 / 220
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1998 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: 13
- Position: #166 / 515
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1048 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: #105 / 663
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #35 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 473 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: 26
- Position: #97 / 176
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #129 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 687 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #150 / 407
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #73 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 497 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #39 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #45 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #221 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 771 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: 18
- Position: #179 / 265
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #106 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1447 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #5 / 562
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1498 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: 21
- Position: #153 / 411
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1259 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #105 / 334
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12784 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #738 / 3688
- Number of attempts: 3
Contributed Challenges
The holy-grail may help - 366 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Paul King
Twitter: @nrocy
Interested in far too many things to be particularly good at any one of them.. doesn't stop me trying, though.