Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: 25
- Position: #3266 / 7358
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4535 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #529 / 1255
- Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6202 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #487 / 1514
- Number of attempts: 12
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 676 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #176 / 384
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #916 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #334 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 614 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #211 / 247
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4261 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #1157 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #116 / 284
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2572 / 4159
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3124 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #1051 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12850 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1212 / 3944
- Number of attempts: 7
Enumerate words - 248 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #71 / 88
- Number of attempts: 2
Transposition - 76 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 97
- Position: #29 / 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Groups magic - 146 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: 14
- Position: #28 / 88
- Number of attempts: 3
Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #183 / 192
- Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 279 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #50 / 217
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 646 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #336 / 354
- Number of attempts: 2
lamb had a little Mary - 582 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #56 / 161
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1002 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #295 / 401
- Number of attempts: 6
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #54 / 258
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5028 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #746 / 1734
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 554 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #166 / 355
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 996 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: #300 / 641
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #258 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 643 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #246 / 398
- Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 870 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #267 / 284
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1067 / 3567
- Number of attempts: 14
Contributed Challenges
quotes inside quotes - 3124 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)