Played Challenges
HS exam question - 1044 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #51 / 284
- Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4231 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #467 / 1041
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #1227 / 7301
- Number of attempts: 15
Swap values - 4500 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #196 / 1247
- Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #627 / 1489
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18480 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #854 / 3811
- Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4650 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #527 / 1863
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10716 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1614 / 3022
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #428 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #119 / 1127
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1441 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: 18
- Position: #220 / 441
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2824 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #317 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 318 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #46 / 114
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 299 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #18 / 159
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #73 / 305
- Number of attempts: 6
Flip the bit - 113 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #41 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2548 / 4140
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1790 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #401 / 575
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 368 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #134 / 169
- Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 47 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #7 / 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #61 / 206
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5486 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #672 / 1243
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 928 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #51 / 261
- Number of attempts: 5
sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 21 entries
* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #8 / 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 820 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #96 / 280
- Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2122 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #51 / 649
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 958 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #149 / 237
- Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2321 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #84 / 434
- Number of attempts: 10
Collect List - 4212 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #338 / 1176
- Number of attempts: 8
Condensed Cases - 773 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
- Position: #166 / 238
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3446 / 4133
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #661 / 1120
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 712 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #175 / 264
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #277 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 356 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: 34
- Position: #34 / 108
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2233 / 3646
- Number of attempts: 6
Letter case trickery - 1580 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: 11
- Position: #282 / 506
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12788 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1610 / 3930
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4993 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #918 / 1722
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1928 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #295 / 635
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1580 / 3471
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #448 / 1533
- Number of attempts: 2