Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #151 / 7301
- Number of attempts: 6
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 641 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #351 / 370
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #103 / 1572
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11283 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #56 / 4140
- Number of attempts: 3
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #68 / 210
- Number of attempts: 3
Array of characters - 135 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: 37
- Position: #21 / 41
- Number of attempts: 5
Cartesian product - 218 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #55 / 92
- Number of attempts: 3
increment by column in XML - 146 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #12 / 53
- Number of attempts: 3
range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #54 / 4133
- Number of attempts: 5
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #16 / 98
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #11 / 292
- Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 852 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #6 / 426
- Number of attempts: 4
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #8 / 101
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #281 / 3646
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12788 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3609 / 3930
- Number of attempts: 2
Recursively Palindrome - 235 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #36 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 800 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #213 / 220
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #286 / 756
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4993 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #2 / 1722
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 538 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #2 / 346
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiplication table. - 195 entries
Create a multiplication table.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 77
- Position: #35 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1928 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #112 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
Line Zipper - 449 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #97 / 209
- Number of attempts: 2
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 505 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #80 / 146
- Number of attempts: 3
Complete the hex array data - 190 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #22 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 444 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #6 / 178
- Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 151 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #11 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 359 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #3 / 113
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor to Helpers - 45 entries
This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)
- Best score: 147
- Best player score: 855
- Position: #22 / 22
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 657 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #171 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #124 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 838 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #163 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 291 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 73
- Position: #98 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 336 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #3 / 130
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1845 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #146 / 634
- Number of attempts: 2
Java Array2List - 218 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 84
- Position: #20 / 82
- Number of attempts: 4
The holy-grail may help - 330 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #73 / 199
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1194 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: 12
- Position: #19 / 392
- Number of attempts: 8
Assignment Alignment - 824 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #14 / 215
- Number of attempts: 8
Shebangs for all - 1804 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #96 / 475
- Number of attempts: 8
A Simple One - 971 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: #176 / 632
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and count - 432 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #62 / 168
- Number of attempts: 7
Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #184 / 449
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 606 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #170 / 385
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1259 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #88 / 504
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 486 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: #40 / 228
- Number of attempts: 3
Compile C - 357 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #39 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 195 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #59 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #35 / 335
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3102 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #407 / 688
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #2 / 3471
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6223 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #391 / 1532
- Number of attempts: 8