Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4231 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #324 / 1041
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 839 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #164 / 264
- Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 1074 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #460 / 494
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 31
- Position: #5616 / 7301
- Number of attempts: 9
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 842 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #203 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #152 / 190
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6096 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #623 / 1489
- Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18480 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2526 / 3811
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4650 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1746 / 1863
- Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2792 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #522 / 826
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #85 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10716 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1443 / 3022
- Number of attempts: 17
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #576 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3496 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #697 / 784
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1453 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #318 / 372
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 318 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #107 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1186 / 1572
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 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: 22
- Position: #295 / 305
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11283 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3528 / 4140
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 820 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: 20
- Position: #260 / 280
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7627 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1854 / 2067
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 982 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #406 / 414
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2122 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #532 / 649
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 826 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #217 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4212 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #1156 / 1176
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #427 / 436
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3812 / 4133
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3142 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #995 / 1120
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3403 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #654 / 686
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12788 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2721 / 3930
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1050 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #393 / 429
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #693 / 724
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2002 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #625 / 634
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4993 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1412 / 1722
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1928 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #530 / 635
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #321 / 392
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3103 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #659 / 689
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #1498 / 1533
- Number of attempts: 1
Shunichi Kanade
Twitter: @shunkana
started in dot-coms during bubble years, crash, switched to finance industry, back to software industry because I love it. Java mostly, Ruby is my passion.