Played Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4730 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 1565
- Number of attempts: 3
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 916 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #342 / 358
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 324 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #34 / 197
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1177 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #238 / 387
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 968 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #81 / 629
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 243 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 276
- Position: #73 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 293 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 582
- Position: #137 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 364 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #123 / 131
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 230 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #80 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 811 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #117 / 445
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 603 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #100 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 458 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #100 / 162
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 143
- Position: #74 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1245 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #37 / 499
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the Haiku - 269 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #80 / 107
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 480 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #17 / 226
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 438 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #27 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 194 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #5 / 143
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 991 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #269 / 334
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 546 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #91 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 679 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #220 / 243
- Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 353 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #37 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3093 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #351 / 684
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #963 / 3459
- Number of attempts: 9