Played Challenges
Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #149 / 566
- Number of attempts: 8
HS exam question - 1596 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #154 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #94 / 352
- Number of attempts: 11
Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #62 / 223
- Number of attempts: 13
delete swap - 1809 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #222 / 564
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1277 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #73 / 274
- Number of attempts: 11
Fix the shell script! - 2606 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #361 / 607
- Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1829 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #110 / 394
- Number of attempts: 7
Python dataclasses - 1215 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #147 / 301
- Number of attempts: 6
Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #49 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2450 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #189 / 485
- Number of attempts: 8
xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #170 / 225
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 22
- Position: #1188 / 7454
- Number of attempts: 11
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 930 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #101 / 263
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #393 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 5
Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries
The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #26 / 42
- Number of attempts: 5
Quote modules - 1094 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #79 / 285
- Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10899 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1170 / 3078
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2052 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #335 / 534
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #195 / 385
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1524 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #350 / 463
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #326 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 547 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #36 / 131
- Number of attempts: 8
On Being Stylish - 81 entries
Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #16 / 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #99 / 274
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 541 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #91 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #49 / 215
- Number of attempts: 7
ninja substitution - 1424 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #134 / 268
- Number of attempts: 16
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #744 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 7
Order and join - 985 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #136 / 260
- Number of attempts: 7
Replace and keep the case - 437 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #62 / 118
- Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 327 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #42 / 98
- Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 549 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #12 / 145
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2430 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #205 / 451
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap assigned value - 664 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #170 / 258
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #677 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #89 / 281
- Number of attempts: 3
Logging with key - 328 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #54 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #49 / 290
- Number of attempts: 12
Line 'em up! - 421 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: 17
- Position: #31 / 114
- Number of attempts: 6
Condensed Cases - 807 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: 12
- Position: #27 / 248
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1568 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2024 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #200 / 586
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2174 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #458 / 706
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #142 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 2
Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
- Best score: 58
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #13 / 32
- Number of attempts: 4
Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #39 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #10 / 31
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1617 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #223 / 448
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2574 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #34 / 761
- Number of attempts: 8
Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #37 / 231
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #61 / 779
- Number of attempts: 11
Switch function arguments - 2162 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #74 / 669
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: #194 / 275
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #807 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 3
HTML to Haml - 881 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #135 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
CSV to JSON - 173 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 76
- Position: #15 / 66
- Number of attempts: 6
Change the content of a string - 1659 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #303 / 612
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #349 / 3776
- Number of attempts: 13
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7252 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #76 / 1790
- Number of attempts: 14