Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32879 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: #740 / 7266
- Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4420 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #189 / 1238
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18365 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #253 / 3785
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2423 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #210 / 558
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2741 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #76 / 813
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3450 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #17 / 1119
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1441 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: #133 / 368
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2785 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #441 / 623
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2211 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #42 / 727
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11119 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #202 / 4108
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 53
- Position: #25 / 41
- Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2091 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: #30 / 640
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 598 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #5 / 191
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 807 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #5 / 214
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15710 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3635 / 4108
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #326 / 3636
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12721 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2082 / 3914
- Number of attempts: 3
Dehamlizing - 173 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #13 / 66
- Number of attempts: 4
The name of the game - 622 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #29 / 340
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1495 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: #134 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 141 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #6 / 52
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2363 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #99 / 714
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2777 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #688 / 731
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1967 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #26 / 624
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 939 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #19 / 383
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 530 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #28 / 231
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4901 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #153 / 1698
- Number of attempts: 5
The meaning - 520 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #120 / 335
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 268 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #29 / 138
- Number of attempts: 2
remove dupes from array - 1281 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #260 / 324
- Number of attempts: 5
Shebangs for all - 1763 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: 16
- Position: #283 / 466
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11589 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #90 / 3402
- Number of attempts: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5974 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #322 / 1475
- Number of attempts: 5