Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4117 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #317 / 1018
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 795 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #159 / 250
- Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 1051 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #449 / 483
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32962 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: #5599 / 7276
- Number of attempts: 9
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 831 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #199 / 238
- Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 596 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #147 / 184
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5977 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #618 / 1468
- Number of attempts: 11
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2512 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1741 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #513 / 815
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 258 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #82 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10545 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1427 / 2989
- Number of attempts: 17
Split line with dots - 2103 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #575 / 623
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #679 / 764
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: #316 / 369
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 311 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #103 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1169 / 1550
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 995 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: #286 / 296
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3504 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 798 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: #255 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7537 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1838 / 2049
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #402 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2095 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: #526 / 642
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 818 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: #212 / 217
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #1147 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #425 / 434
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3797 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3122 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #989 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #653 / 685
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2713 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #385 / 420
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2377 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #689 / 719
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1985 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #619 / 628
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1401 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1905 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #523 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1172 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: #318 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #639 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #1455 / 1486
- 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.