Played Challenges
Prime Numbers - 345 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #16 / 102
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #140 / 398
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #182 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 5
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #50 / 371
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 628 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #8 / 252
- Number of attempts: 2
Change your calendar - 363 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #13 / 86
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #35 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #7 / 173
- Number of attempts: 4
XML to JSON - 45 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
- Best score: 75
- Best player score: 83
- Position: #4 / 18
- Number of attempts: 2
fib.c cleanup - 67 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #9 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
REDRUM - 151 entries
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #6 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
Enumerate words - 251 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #14 / 90
- Number of attempts: 2
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 78 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: 24
- Position: #25 / 41
- Number of attempts: 1
Transposition - 83 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #17 / 31
- Number of attempts: 9
Block Fun 1 - 190 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #49 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Groups magic - 157 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #3 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #41 / 195
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort by your own sum - 74 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #10 / 29
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 60 entries
The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #24 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 282 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #32 / 220
- Number of attempts: 1
Python: Lots of function arguments - 105 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #4 / 48
- Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 245 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: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #17 / 93
- Number of attempts: 3
Checkerboard case pattern - 149 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #32 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
Printable ASCII characters - 136 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #14 / 43
- Number of attempts: 3
A simple change - 444 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #150 / 190
- Number of attempts: 1
Add links to an existing HTML table - 78 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #14 / 30
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 136 entries
Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #24 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 175 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #20 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
Presidential Sorting - 50 entries
Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!
- Best score: 40
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #20 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract text from xml - 110 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #18 / 45
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 654 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #40 / 359
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #69 / 164
- Number of attempts: 1
Chucking wood - 111 entries
An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)
- Best score: 51
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #13 / 47
- Number of attempts: 3
Stairs Indenting - 452 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #75 / 195
- Number of attempts: 1
Unwrap the text of an email message - 188 entries
Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #11 / 73
- Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #75 / 476
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #150 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the chessboard - 79 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #18 / 31
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #42 / 772
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #50 / 653
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #115 / 646
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1009 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: #302 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 288 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #20 / 85
- Number of attempts: 4
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 108
- Position: #11 / 143
- Number of attempts: 3
Table Reshuffle - 372 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #34 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 238 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #27 / 86
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #36 / 230
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #244 / 404
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #15 / 159
- Number of attempts: 3
Indentation - 499 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #41 / 170
- Number of attempts: 5
Hatsuyume - 467 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #29 / 179
- Number of attempts: 5
Turn this csv list into queries - 205 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 114
- Position: #34 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #134 / 517
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the Haiku - 276 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #35 / 110
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #77 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 107 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #22 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 366 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #5 / 133
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #94 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #67 / 340
- Number of attempts: 2
Linear congruential generator - 132 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #24 / 51
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 590 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #25 / 233
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat a C golf submission - 574 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #14 / 203
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: 13
- Position: #54 / 257
- Number of attempts: 5
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 190 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #11 / 65
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #73 / 202
- Number of attempts: 5
Remember FizzBuzz? - 686 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #66 / 184
- Number of attempts: 3
Get rid of html tags - 378 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #75 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1502 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #87 / 567
- Number of attempts: 4
Deleting folded text - 342 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #33 / 114
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #124 / 542
- Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #27 / 175
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 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: #59 / 397
- Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 930 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #99 / 295
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #73 / 758
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #90 / 321
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #111 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #44 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 4