Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4115 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #390 / 1017
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 591 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: 12
- Position: #23 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: 23
- Position: #2654 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5975 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #547 / 1467
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1238 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 2
Aliases for cd - 819 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #49 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #246 / 561
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10545 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1023 / 2989
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 1938 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #144 / 493
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1262 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: #229 / 417
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 995 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: 10
- Position: #191 / 296
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2872 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #249 / 570
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 574 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: #53 / 204
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #199 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 1
Sudoku table - 58 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #8 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Python challenge - 140 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #9 / 41
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 946 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #110 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #702 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 441 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #37 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2390 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 479 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #42 / 182
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 645 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #73 / 236
- Number of attempts: 2