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: 24
- Position: #2983 / 7455
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #558 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18801 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2593 / 3882
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1148 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #343 / 757
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1014 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #452 / 701
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2146 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #164 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: 40
- Position: #32 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #906 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 1
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #24 / 63
- Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 338 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #77 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #46 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1235 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
7th Birthday - 210 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #44 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 244 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #37 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1073 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #348 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 185 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #45 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 278 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #69 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 136 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #49 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 437 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #75 / 118
- Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #114 / 184
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 513 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #100 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Manual SQL - 160 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #21 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #35 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #209 / 269
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 664 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #184 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #715 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 575 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #235 / 352
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #123 / 281
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #281 / 446
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #165 / 290
- Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 421 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #90 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffled numbers - 246 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #79 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #207 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 807 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: 15
- Position: #170 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1649 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #815 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #246 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 460 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #134 / 158
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 505 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #81 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #90 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #161 / 301
- Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 716 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #160 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #378 / 438
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 364 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #66 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #151 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Split the words - 372 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #64 / 112
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2777 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3525 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #437 / 706
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: 12
- Position: #348 / 520
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #632 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2670 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 1
Pairs of numbers - 364 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #95 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1024 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #185 / 305
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #92 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 678 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #210 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1617 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #228 / 448
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #289 / 448
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2574 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #369 / 761
- Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #120 / 231
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #475 / 779
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2162 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #287 / 669
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #233 / 420
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #188 / 275
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1404 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #481 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1360 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: 22
- Position: #181 / 337
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1939 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #270 / 655
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1260 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: 14
- Position: #242 / 410
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #102 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2049 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: 18
- Position: #384 / 523
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1064 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: #427 / 670
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #73 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #377 / 534
- Number of attempts: 5
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #242 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #145 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 757 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #151 / 219
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1675 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #541 / 616
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1516 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #371 / 586
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #237 / 435
- Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 1074 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #241 / 332
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1376 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #208 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13145 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1530 / 3778
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7261 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #1065 / 1792
- Number of attempts: 2