Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #34 / 352
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #87 / 1541
- Number of attempts: 4
Recursively Palindrome - 234 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #47 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #248 / 385
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 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: 15
- Position: #9 / 260
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #132 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 521 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #98 / 336
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy New Year! - 139 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #19 / 56
- Number of attempts: 4
imports alignment (python) - 640 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #124 / 191
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 376 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #99 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 800 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #129 / 197
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 329 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #87 / 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #173 / 194
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 411 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #96 / 139
- Number of attempts: 4
Solve the Sokoban - 160 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #39 / 70
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 315 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #63 / 194
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 12
- Position: #9 / 382
- Number of attempts: 5
Assignment Alignment - 770 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #130 / 210
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1771 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: 17
- Position: #313 / 467
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 924 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #161 / 612
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 590 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #86 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 568 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #147 / 371
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 494 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #101 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 446 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #118 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 413 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #85 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 83 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #33 / 50
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #444 / 488
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 468 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #196 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 102 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #29 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #52 / 222
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 180 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #55 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #312 / 521
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #46 / 483
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 487 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #146 / 158
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 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: 21
- Position: #141 / 347
- Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 710 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #175 / 253
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2979 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #573 / 663
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 901 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #234 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2160 / 3410
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6014 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1112 / 1481
- Number of attempts: 1