Played Challenges
Prime Numbers - 339 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 73
- Position: #65 / 99
- Number of attempts: 4
Word Blender - 129 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #5 / 54
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 631 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #9 / 368
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 613 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: #113 / 208
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 916 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #36 / 358
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4978 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #83 / 1716
- Number of attempts: 3
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
- Best score: 68
- Best player score: 77
- Position: #7 / 21
- Number of attempts: 4
Happy New Year! - 139 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #30 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 252 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #49 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 209 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1 / 95
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 449 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #30 / 196
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 422 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #16 / 142
- Number of attempts: 3
Getters & Setters: Java - 190 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 94
- Position: #9 / 54
- Number of attempts: 8
Solve the Sokoban - 161 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #14 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 324 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #17 / 197
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1177 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: 13
- Position: #129 / 387
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1789 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: 13
- Position: #159 / 472
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 968 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: #115 / 629
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 243 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #24 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 293 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 116
- Position: #25 / 137
- Number of attempts: 3
Letters are numbers - 147 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #16 / 72
- Number of attempts: 5
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 230 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #11 / 83
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 601 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #10 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 811 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #137 / 445
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 603 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #137 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 100
- Position: #6 / 94
- Number of attempts: 5
Dumb to smart - 91 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #13 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1245 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #64 / 499
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 480 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: #27 / 226
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove Accent off the Letter - 103 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #5 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 438 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #33 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 194 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #33 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 991 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #154 / 334
- Number of attempts: 1
Linear congruential generator - 112 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #10 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat most common surnames - 608 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #59 / 190
- Number of attempts: 4
Remember FizzBuzz? - 618 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #151 / 171
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1405 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #16 / 535
- Number of attempts: 1
Deleting folded text - 324 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #21 / 111
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1238 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #32 / 499
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 522 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #54 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1201 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: 23
- Position: #239 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 974 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #113 / 282
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6189 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #460 / 1524
- Number of attempts: 1