Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32904 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: 32
- Position: #5797 / 7270
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #262 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2431 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #477 / 560
- Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1034 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #730 / 760
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7680 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #454 / 1835
- Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 761 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #85 / 216
- Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2215 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #689 / 728
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #564 / 1541
- Number of attempts: 5
Number Sort - 284 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #103 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #663 / 683
- 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: 10
- Position: #186 / 296
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2780 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #134 / 261
- Number of attempts: 6
Todo list specification - 365 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #163 / 168
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #471 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple addition - 293 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #102 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 916 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #114 / 257
- Number of attempts: 10
Create a table - 302 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #97 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7520 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #449 / 2043
- Number of attempts: 11
Paragraph sort - 414 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #66 / 120
- Number of attempts: 7
Angular naming conventions - 280 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #105 / 109
- 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: 11
- Position: #79 / 236
- Number of attempts: 13
Hello ${world} - 293 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #66 / 92
- Number of attempts: 6
Put the months in order - 915 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #135 / 155
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #589 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #357 / 433
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 752 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: 12
- Position: #56 / 230
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 15728 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3459 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 441 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #47 / 140
- Number of attempts: 12
Gray area - 698 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 259
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 1948 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: 12
- Position: #218 / 571
- Number of attempts: 10
Mess in revision history - 1143 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #191 / 242
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2344 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1547 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: 18
- Position: #466 / 498
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1694 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 7
Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #29 / 167
- Number of attempts: 10
Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #31 / 37
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1005 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #120 / 418
- Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #110 / 732
- Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #163 / 627
- Number of attempts: 7
Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #231 / 385
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1891 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #179 / 622
- Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1290 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #115 / 325
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: #92 / 382
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 924 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: #502 / 612
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #248 / 488
- Number of attempts: 4
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #305 / 326
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1350 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #265 / 521
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #218 / 483
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 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: 39
- Position: #337 / 347
- Number of attempts: 3