Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #236 / 1605
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 14
- Position: #22 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 4
Top X - 192 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #14 / 70
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
- Position: #89 / 106
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #63 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete unwanted lines - 398 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #56 / 227
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 654 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #123 / 359
- 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: #10 / 748
- Number of attempts: 12
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: #44 / 772
- Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #64 / 653
- Number of attempts: 5
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #46 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #753 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #122 / 646
- Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #89 / 758
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #172 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #66 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 10