Played Challenges
vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #128 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #350 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #194 / 1629
- Number of attempts: 8
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 40
- Position: #21 / 382
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #4 / 107
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12951 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #208 / 3966
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3 / 755
- Number of attempts: 8
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #2 / 230
- Number of attempts: 19
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #43 / 778
- Number of attempts: 11
Switch function arguments - 2140 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #53 / 664
- Number of attempts: 15
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #141 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #29 / 652
- Number of attempts: 7
remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 19
- Position: #113 / 336
- Number of attempts: 16
Numbering a List - 1935 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #122 / 654
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #47 / 407
- Number of attempts: 17
Shebangs for all - 2010 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: 11
- Position: #7 / 517
- Number of attempts: 13
A Simple One - 1052 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: #310 / 666
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #254 / 410
- Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 550 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3 / 180
- Number of attempts: 10
Hatsuyume - 540 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #22 / 187
- Number of attempts: 15
The Cake is a Lie - 1354 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #137 / 529
- Number of attempts: 7
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #98 / 247
- Number of attempts: 11
Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #68 / 345
- Number of attempts: 10
Reverse characters in a line - 776 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: 12
- Position: #3 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #97 / 593
- Number of attempts: 12
Sort and add attributes - 1475 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #346 / 573
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1557 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #73 / 421
- Number of attempts: 11
Braces or Brackets? - 1043 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #172 / 322
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3708 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #4 / 797
- Number of attempts: 17
Flodder-challenge - 1307 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #8 / 342
- Number of attempts: 20
Simple text editing with Vim - 12897 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #123 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 17
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7040 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #1410 / 1729
- Number of attempts: 5