Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #615 / 7422
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #103 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18732 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #89 / 3865
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #403 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #84 / 634
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2872 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #21 / 640
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 13
- Position: #170 / 753
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #463 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 9
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #137 / 701
- Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11457 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #708 / 4198
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #39 / 1264
- 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: 16
- Position: #24 / 122
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #212 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #17 / 77
- Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 690 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #36 / 163
- Number of attempts: 12
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #19 / 125
- Number of attempts: 9
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #199 / 424
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #15 / 184
- Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1095 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: #42 / 246
- Number of attempts: 6
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #28 / 140
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #29 / 159
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #238 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #62 / 444
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #446 / 4181
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #177 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 11
- Position: #71 / 585
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1010 / 3684
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #120 / 702
- Number of attempts: 17
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 14
- Position: #246 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12939 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1554 / 3964
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #86 / 777
- Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #436 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #429 / 3696
- Number of attempts: 5