Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32963 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: 27
- Position: #3729 / 7277
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #998 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3092 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1158 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2103 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #474 / 623
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
- Position: #357 / 625
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2218 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #676 / 729
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1151 / 1550
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2507 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #650 / 684
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2189 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5444 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #880 / 1229
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 340 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #104 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #365 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 772 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #141 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 481 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #90 / 123
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1040 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: 17
- Position: #161 / 236
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #204 / 262
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 561 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #228 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1099 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #223 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #316 / 434
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #214 / 279
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 758 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: 21
- Position: #213 / 231
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15749 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3128 / 4117
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3122 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #803 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #302 / 342
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 441 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #88 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #344 / 572
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2097 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #482 / 685
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1553 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: 17
- Position: #460 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 17
- Position: #865 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3433 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 507 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #127 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
Readable Rubyhash - 239 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: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #74 / 88
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2824 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #457 / 738
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1985 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #580 / 628
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 665 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #222 / 262
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1168 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 864 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #143 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 772 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #378 / 432
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 978 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #187 / 329
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1211 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #351 / 490
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1160 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #329 / 348
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2097 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #765 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 2
Ryan van Rensburg
Twitter: @rdvr001
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