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: #989 / 7270
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #176 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18377 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1119 / 3787
- Number of attempts: 7
Separate the lines - 159 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #33 / 85
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4639 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #502 / 1856
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10539 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2740 / 2988
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2098 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #119 / 622
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
- Position: #41 / 417
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #198 / 686
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 19
- Position: #365 / 625
- Number of attempts: 6
comment and uncomment code inline - 990 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: 9
- Position: #54 / 295
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #941 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #9 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 37
- Position: #39 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
Flatten repo - 22 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #7 / 8
- 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: #46 / 205
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5428 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #76 / 1226
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #26 / 108
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #40 / 257
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a table - 302 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #10 / 98
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 13
- Position: #87 / 271
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7520 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #299 / 2043
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 877 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #37 / 241
- Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 293 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #37 / 92
- Number of attempts: 3
Add Go XML to structure tags - 148 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #7 / 64
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #59 / 431
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #318 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15727 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #606 / 4113
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1155 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #790 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #479 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11620 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #488 / 3409
- Number of attempts: 4