Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 28
- Position: #4053 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #973 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2051 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #251 / 633
- Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #346 / 839
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1481 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #443 / 453
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #428 / 639
- Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #115 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #215 / 316
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #182 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 8
Text to HTML Table - 174 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #38 / 51
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 383 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #57 / 143
- Number of attempts: 3
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 64 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #5 / 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #219 / 288
- Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 262 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #6 / 94
- Number of attempts: 4
Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #3 / 173
- Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 307 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #12 / 139
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #101 / 121
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #2 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1026 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 5
7th Birthday - 187 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #53 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 165 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #39 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 220 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #62 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 965 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #146 / 258
- Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #49 / 166
- Number of attempts: 8
Inner hyphens - 130 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #28 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #159 / 183
- Number of attempts: 3
Add Go XML to structure tags - 153 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #52 / 67
- Number of attempts: 3
Restore order to the alphabet - 197 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #70 / 71
- Number of attempts: 4
Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #172 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #147 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Rail fence transposition cipher - 71 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #24 / 25
- Number of attempts: 10
Interleave lines - 159 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #39 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 302 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #68 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #229 / 442
- Number of attempts: 7
remove all lines in first part - 197 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #63 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
Shuffled numbers - 237 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #83 / 95
- Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #153 / 238
- Number of attempts: 5
Sorting database text output - 220 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #73 / 82
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2075 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Format java properties - 73 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".