Played Challenges
vim = 22 / 7 - 451 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #126 / 133
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 6
- Position: #330 / 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: #194 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 40
- Position: #18 / 371
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 346 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 / 106
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #203 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3 / 748
- Number of attempts: 8
Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #2 / 227
- Number of attempts: 19
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: #43 / 772
- Number of attempts: 11
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #53 / 653
- Number of attempts: 15
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #141 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #29 / 643
- Number of attempts: 7
remove dupes from array - 1345 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: #112 / 333
- Number of attempts: 16
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #117 / 646
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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 / 402
- Number of attempts: 17
Shebangs for all - 1917 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 / 502
- Number of attempts: 13
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: #310 / 648
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #249 / 404
- Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 499 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3 / 170
- Number of attempts: 10
Hatsuyume - 467 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #17 / 179
- Number of attempts: 15
The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #137 / 517
- Number of attempts: 7
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #98 / 237
- Number of attempts: 11
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #68 / 340
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 12
- Position: #3 / 257
- 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: #97 / 567
- Number of attempts: 12
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #327 / 542
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #70 / 397
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 46
- Position: #160 / 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: 16
- Position: #4 / 758
- Number of attempts: 17
Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #8 / 321
- Number of attempts: 20
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: #123 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 17
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #1372 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 5