Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #319 / 407
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1540 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 42
- Position: #77 / 379
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy New Year! - 145 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #12 / 59
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #28 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #15 / 97
- Number of attempts: 6
Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #73 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #72 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: 13
- Position: #132 / 405
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1991 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: 13
- Position: #174 / 514
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1045 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: #11 / 660
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 410 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #45 / 138
- Number of attempts: 2
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 250 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #44 / 88
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #120 / 233
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #142 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 684 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #126 / 406
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #94 / 161
- Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 534 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #62 / 177
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 117
- Position: #45 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1339 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #45 / 525
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #175 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 126 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 71
- Position: #36 / 51
- Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 406 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #79 / 139
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #175 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 589 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #155 / 207
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #89 / 208
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1567 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #26 / 585
- Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 608 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #67 / 181
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 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: 21
- Position: #163 / 409
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 969 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #140 / 312
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
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