Played Challenges
Paste a column after a column - 2413 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #138 / 523
- Number of attempts: 8
HS exam question - 1523 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #146 / 404
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat symbols in list - 1507 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #90 / 334
- Number of attempts: 11
Poorly indented Python comments - 1275 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #59 / 213
- Number of attempts: 13
delete swap - 1650 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #222 / 514
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1231 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: #71 / 260
- Number of attempts: 11
Fix the shell script! - 2431 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #345 / 569
- Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1710 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #107 / 378
- Number of attempts: 7
Python dataclasses - 1121 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #136 / 281
- Number of attempts: 6
Python: Def to Lambda - 441 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #49 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2360 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: #186 / 465
- Number of attempts: 8
xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 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: #163 / 218
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 11
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #100 / 257
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #391 / 1259
- 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 - 1066 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #79 / 278
- Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1165 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #330 / 518
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: #194 / 378
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1481 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: #343 / 453
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #326 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 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 / 128
- Number of attempts: 8
On Being Stylish - 73 entries
Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #15 / 20
- Number of attempts: 7
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #98 / 273
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 532 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: #90 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 641 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: #47 / 212
- Number of attempts: 7
ninja substitution - 1399 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #134 / 265
- Number of attempts: 16
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #737 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 7
Order and join - 965 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #135 / 258
- Number of attempts: 7
Replace and keep the case - 415 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #61 / 117
- Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 300 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #41 / 95
- Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #12 / 137
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #203 / 445
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap assigned value - 628 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #168 / 252
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #674 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 775 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #88 / 277
- Number of attempts: 3
Logging with key - 302 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #53 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1000 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #49 / 287
- Number of attempts: 12
Line 'em up! - 396 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 / 112
- Number of attempts: 6
Condensed Cases - 794 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 / 244
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1559 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #198 / 581
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2164 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #451 / 695
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #134 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 2
Execute immediate SQL - 87 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
- Best score: 58
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #13 / 31
- Number of attempts: 4
Python: Lots of function arguments - 105 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: #38 / 48
- Number of attempts: 1
Add links to an existing HTML table - 78 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: #9 / 30
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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: #220 / 443
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #34 / 748
- Number of attempts: 8
Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #36 / 227
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #61 / 772
- Number of attempts: 11
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #74 / 653
- Number of attempts: 5
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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: #192 / 272
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #803 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 3
HTML to Haml - 843 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #134 / 203
- 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 - 1502 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #277 / 567
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 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 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 13
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #74 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 14