Played Challenges
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #127 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #269 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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
- Position: #22 / 364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap assigned value - 624 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #57 / 249
- Number of attempts: 5
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #124 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #104 / 293
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #154 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 10
- Position: #71 / 511
- Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #79 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #197 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 16
- Position: #42 / 302
- Number of attempts: 7
lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #9 / 163
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #46 / 439
- Number of attempts: 4
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: 21
- Position: #86 / 473
- Number of attempts: 9
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #60 / 441
- Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #16 / 737
- Number of attempts: 8
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #86 / 652
- Number of attempts: 8
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #50 / 194
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #224 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 5
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #83 / 202
- Number of attempts: 5
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #91 / 639
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #170 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #215 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 4
Andrew O'Neill
Twitter: @AndroidOatmeal
Physics major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I love magic, programming and writing music. Uh, I guess that's it?