Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32881 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: #610 / 7266
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4423 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #100 / 1239
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18369 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #86 / 3786
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4635 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #401 / 1855
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2088 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #81 / 621
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2786 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #20 / 624
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #168 / 727
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4644 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #460 / 1539
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2488 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #132 / 680
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11124 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #702 / 4109
- Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #23 / 261
- Number of attempts: 9
Basic renumbering - 5422 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #37 / 1225
- Number of attempts: 8
Wrap text in quotes - 334 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #22 / 114
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7508 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #210 / 2038
- Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 216 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #16 / 74
- Number of attempts: 6
C Reformatting - 686 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #32 / 159
- Number of attempts: 8
Paragraph sort - 406 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #17 / 118
- Number of attempts: 4
Array of characters - 133 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #9 / 40
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #195 / 410
- Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 280 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: 31
- Position: #104 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 395 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #38 / 111
- Number of attempts: 6
Scrambled numbers - 772 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #12 / 179
- Number of attempts: 9
Alsa configuration - 481 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #36 / 123
- Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1025 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: 11
- Position: #40 / 234
- Number of attempts: 3
A grid of punctuation - 115 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #16 / 54
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 275 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #26 / 130
- Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 760 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #63 / 259
- Number of attempts: 5
From A to B - 552 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #26 / 152
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4172 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #236 / 1165
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 742 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #53 / 266
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1575 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #60 / 431
- Number of attempts: 5
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #39 / 279
- Number of attempts: 7
Condensed Cases - 744 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: 12
- Position: #45 / 228
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15712 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #445 / 4109
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3111 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #174 / 1111
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 947 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #39 / 338
- Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1091 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #51 / 289
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1943 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: 11
- Position: #69 / 570
- Number of attempts: 7
Where should I put the Newline? - 837 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #181 / 420
- Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1122 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #39 / 241
- Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1006 / 3636
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3387 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #117 / 683
- Number of attempts: 10
Letter case trickery - 1537 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: 9
- Position: #4 / 497
- Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3020 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: #242 / 1043
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12729 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #685 / 3917
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1949 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #41 / 466
- 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: 21
- Position: #49 / 714
- Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #182 / 732
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 1971 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #131 / 625
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4903 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #431 / 1699
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1889 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #75 / 621
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2940 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #93 / 658
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 11594 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #428 / 3403
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5975 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #146 / 1476
- Number of attempts: 12