Played Challenges
vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #72 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #792 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 3
Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #36 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 647 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #154 / 254
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 560 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #107 / 347
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 368 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: 40
- Position: #76 / 111
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3516 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #283 / 701
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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
- Position: #545 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 30
- Position: #47 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 280 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #47 / 78
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1261 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 5
Pairs of numbers - 363 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: 36
- Position: #70 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Assign list - 192 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #29 / 61
- Number of attempts: 2
Hole-in-one - 1018 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
- Position: #167 / 304
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #99 / 229
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #117 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #152 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 665 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #147 / 360
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #128 / 168
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 8
- Position: #39 / 446
- Number of attempts: 3
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 25
- Position: #167 / 480
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 445
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #283 / 754
- Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #130 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #459 / 777
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #249 / 663
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #321 / 419
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #174 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1331 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2005 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #159 / 650
- Number of attempts: 2
remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 23
- Position: #206 / 336
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1931 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #132 / 652
- Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 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: #156 / 406
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1998 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: 15
- Position: #270 / 515
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #159 / 527
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1580 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #284 / 588
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #348 / 563
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 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: 24
- Position: #306 / 412
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3655 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #307 / 786
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12794 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1158 / 3690
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6974 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #358 / 1704
- Number of attempts: 5