Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: #3828 / 7455
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1037 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18801 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1399 / 3882
- Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #406 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #419 / 635
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2922 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #421 / 706
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #171 / 757
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #465 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #138 / 701
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #715 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #106 / 274
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #962 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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: 18
- Position: #226 / 294
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #9 / 83
- Number of attempts: 8
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #88 / 122
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1263 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #68 / 77
- Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 690 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #148 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #86 / 125
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #110 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1073 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #200 / 429
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #64 / 184
- Number of attempts: 9
Alsa configuration - 513 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #119 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1097 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: 19
- Position: #203 / 247
- Number of attempts: 2
A grid of punctuation - 140 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 62
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #127 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #66 / 269
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #30 / 159
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #946 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #63 / 446
- Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2880 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #825 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2024 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: #201 / 586
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #703 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3525 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #604 / 706
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 15
- Position: #467 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2346 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #191 / 779
- Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #903 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7258 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #1067 / 1790
- Number of attempts: 2