Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32904 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: #856 / 7270
- Number of attempts: 17
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #181 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 14
One number per line - 18377 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1367 / 3787
- Number of attempts: 13
Split line with dots - 2098 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #212 / 622
- Number of attempts: 10
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: #225 / 352
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: #109 / 369
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #174 / 686
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2794 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #51 / 625
- Number of attempts: 13
Extract argument from function - 2215 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #336 / 728
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #800 / 1541
- Number of attempts: 8
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #152 / 683
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2368 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #32 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 365 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: #124 / 168
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 836 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: #51 / 205
- Number of attempts: 11
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #450 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple addition - 293 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #28 / 108
- Number of attempts: 7
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 156 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #59 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 302 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #22 / 98
- Number of attempts: 5
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 795 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: 15
- Position: #173 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7520 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #741 / 2043
- Number of attempts: 10
7th Birthday - 182 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #65 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1040 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #55 / 236
- Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 293 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #70 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #72 / 262
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #287 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 16
Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #280 / 433
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15728 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #553 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #198 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 7
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #200 / 291
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 1948 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: 11
- Position: #81 / 571
- Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #378 / 421
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #43 / 242
- Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2154 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3026 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: #276 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1553 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 13
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #297 / 424
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1004 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #289 / 417
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #283 / 627
- Number of attempts: 9
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #463 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 5
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 840 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #112 / 173
- Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 1891 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #82 / 622
- Number of attempts: 8
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #253 / 625
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 14
- Position: #218 / 467
- Number of attempts: 7
The Cake is a Lie - 1197 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #356 / 487
- Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #313 / 483
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2979 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #100 / 663
- Number of attempts: 12
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: 13
- Position: #468 / 3410
- Number of attempts: 12
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6004 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #257 / 1480
- Number of attempts: 10