Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32910 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: #1730 / 7271
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #265 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18385 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #918 / 3789
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #174 / 561
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1349 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #125 / 815
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2098 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #548 / 622
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #573 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3379 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #581 / 761
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7682 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #465 / 1836
- Number of attempts: 6
Cool or not? - 761 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #24 / 216
- Number of attempts: 7
html paragraph to table - 583 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #48 / 121
- Number of attempts: 8
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 711 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #69 / 167
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #241 / 686
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2801 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #122 / 625
- Number of attempts: 8
Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #18 / 50
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #359 / 728
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4654 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #572 / 1542
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 476 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #25 / 116
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #203 / 683
- Number of attempts: 9
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: #187 / 296
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11140 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2792 / 4113
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #220 / 570
- Number of attempts: 7
Stairstep digits - 245 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #96 / 116
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #166 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 18
Adam's challenge - 916 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #77 / 257
- Number of attempts: 6
ninja substitution - 1302 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #133 / 248
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7522 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #454 / 2044
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2095 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: 13
- Position: #346 / 642
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 604 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: #29 / 192
- Number of attempts: 5
Build a six - 267 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #33 / 89
- Number of attempts: 8
Increment each number - 946 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #99 / 233
- Number of attempts: 5
Delete to the end of the current line - 713 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #117 / 349
- Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 915 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #54 / 155
- Number of attempts: 10
move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #125 / 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #133 / 431
- Number of attempts: 10
convert yml into java pojo field - 811 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: 30
- Position: #115 / 216
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple format (2) - 306 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #61 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #419 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15740 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1819 / 4115
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #251 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 13
- Position: #263 / 572
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1376 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #597 / 685
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #311 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #957 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 5
Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #32 / 37
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #545 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #180 / 521
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1689 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6015 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1159 / 1482
- Number of attempts: 5