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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #3210 / 7407
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18710 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #120 / 3857
  • Number of attempts: 8
vim = 22 / 7 - 472 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #47 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4970 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1093 / 1618
  • Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: 44
  • Position: #229 / 379
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #203 / 253
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 555 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #298 / 345
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #35 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1621 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #363 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 1
Untangle my tail, please! - 60 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #29 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: 18
  • Position: #953 / 1075
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #9 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 4
Top X - 212 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: 34
  • Position: #62 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
  • Position: #65 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3525 / 3960
  • Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 290 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #145 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #126 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #49 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 3
Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #27 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 10
A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #143 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #125 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #305 / 360
  • Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 598 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #136 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #265 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 4
Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #163 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2053 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #279 / 479
  • Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #346 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 2
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #48 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #572 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 3
Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #205 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2996 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #551 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #195 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 499 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #141 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #169 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #237 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5067 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1480 / 1746
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 574 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #340 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1007 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #119 / 192
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1986 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #558 / 646
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1354 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: 24
  • Position: #225 / 335
  • Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #565 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1980 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: 16
  • Position: #310 / 509
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #478 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #234 / 342
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1552 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #273 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1421 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #341 / 552
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1477 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: 25
  • Position: #327 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3589 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #578 / 775
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1224 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #194 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6866 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #1239 / 1681
  • Number of attempts: 1
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