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: 30
- Position: #5301 / 7425
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4627 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1116 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18749 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #3551 / 3867
- Number of attempts: 1
Separate the lines - 182 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #78 / 92
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4810 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1697 / 1896
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #429 / 634
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #370 / 380
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1508 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #438 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #551 / 703
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
- Position: #492 / 640
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
- Position: #684 / 753
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4994 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1388 / 1627
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #581 / 701
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #250 / 322
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11464 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #3939 / 4202
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 399 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #171 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 394 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #135 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #160 / 213
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #922 / 1267
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple addition - 326 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #103 / 122
- Number of attempts: 2
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #34 / 79
- Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 984 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #242 / 270
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 332 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #81 / 105
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: #242 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 266 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #79 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7922 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1594 / 2132
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 983 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #236 / 259
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 522 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #135 / 167
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #389 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #180 / 184
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 25
- Position: #235 / 246
- Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 324 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #62 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 172 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #62 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2417 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #422 / 448
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #247 / 269
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #135 / 159
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4305 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #971 / 1191
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #264 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #288 / 444
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #199 / 290
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3933 / 4184
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #993 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #210 / 300
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 15
- Position: #412 / 585
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #2590 / 3685
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #620 / 702
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 13
- Position: #412 / 518
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 17
- Position: #907 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12939 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2392 / 3964
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #395 / 480
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #484 / 755
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #608 / 778
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #507 / 663
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1418 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2005 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #407 / 650
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #627 / 794
- 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: 20
- Position: #2825 / 3707
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7023 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #1124 / 1720
- Number of attempts: 1
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