Played Challenges
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: 28
- Position: #4074 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #653 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1996 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #365 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2218 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #161 / 729
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #442 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #508 / 683
- 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: #2156 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #115 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #929 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 148 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #47 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7535 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #874 / 2048
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 416 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #107 / 120
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #170 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 162 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #55 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 283 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #78 / 110
- Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 481 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 123
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 18
- Position: #175 / 236
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #154 / 262
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 556 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #71 / 153
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #918 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #119 / 267
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #313 / 434
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #78 / 279
- Number of attempts: 5
Condensed Cases - 758 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: 13
- Position: #86 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1627 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #613 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1951 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: 16
- Position: #500 / 572
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2735 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #520 / 685
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1553 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: 12
- Position: #340 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 17
- Position: #859 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1510 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2369 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #352 / 717
- Number of attempts: 1
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 202 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #3 / 64
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #380 / 735
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #274 / 627
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #876 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1470 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #358 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 3