Played Challenges
7th Birthday - 180 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18071 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 766 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 145 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 159 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 115 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4361 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 478 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 151 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 3
Replace and keep the case - 369 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 937 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
lipsum lines - 245 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
Manual SQL - 96 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 49
- Best player score: 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 168 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 280 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7355 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32488 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: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 933 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4128 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Restore order to the alphabet - 161 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Line 'em up! - 306 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 203 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 731 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 921 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1503 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 420 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11033 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 729 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15536 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5386 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 669 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2452 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 932 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3059 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 401 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 389 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4569 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1066 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2165 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 692 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1102 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 347 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10483 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 346 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3346 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1497 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: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 478 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 2995 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 963 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 340 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 42
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12628 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 532 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 525 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 976 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1426 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 597 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2288 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 1909 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 631 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 899 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 779 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2729 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4850 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1837 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1260 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1772 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 722 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1706 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1113 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: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 870 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 326 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 860 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 602 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: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 540 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1270 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1042 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
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 644 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 829 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11292 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5778 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Number of attempts: 2