Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: 22
- Position: #1902 / 7425
- Number of attempts: 13
Swap values - 4627 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #621 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18749 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1230 / 3867
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4810 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #605 / 1896
- Number of attempts: 7
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2882 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #409 / 852
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10872 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #188 / 3067
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #408 / 526
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3592 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #273 / 1164
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3831 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #378 / 867
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #732 / 753
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4994 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1230 / 1627
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #536 / 701
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: 12
- Position: #259 / 322
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11464 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1181 / 4202
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #599 / 1267
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 983 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #256 / 259
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2417 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #430 / 448
- Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 167 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #11 / 87
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2271 / 4184
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 19
- Position: #572 / 585
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1330 / 3685
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12939 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1698 / 3964
- Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #305 / 755
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #577 / 663
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #529 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1051 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: #485 / 665
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1721 / 3707
- Number of attempts: 4