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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #242 / 1578
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sierpinski's Triangle - 82 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #20 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 524 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #43 / 339
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 447 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #42 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1588 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: #40 / 509
  • Number of attempts: 2
Untangle my tail, please! - 57 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #9 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1920 / 3938
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 590 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #135 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #146 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 168 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: 28
  • Position: #52 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 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: #40 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 2
lamb had a little Mary - 570 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #84 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #265 / 435
  • Number of attempts: 4
Saving the hashes(#) - 1977 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: 29
  • Position: #309 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #45 / 436
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #287 / 397
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 543 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #199 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #365 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 24
  • Position: #220 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11970 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1074 / 3505
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Letter case trickery - 1588 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.

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