Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33778 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: 32
- Position: #5927 / 7453
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #262 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #498 / 585
- Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1084 / 1173
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #849 / 886
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7954 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #465 / 1886
- Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 841 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #89 / 232
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 21
- Position: #717 / 757
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #564 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 5
Number Sort - 319 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #103 / 170
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #681 / 701
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: 10
- Position: #205 / 328
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11506 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2813 / 4217
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #141 / 274
- Number of attempts: 6
Todo list specification - 403 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: #174 / 181
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #495 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple addition - 332 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #116 / 124
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1008 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: 19
- Position: #123 / 275
- Number of attempts: 10
Create a table - 333 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #105 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #449 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 11
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #70 / 125
- Number of attempts: 7
Angular naming conventions - 326 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #115 / 119
- 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: 11
- Position: #79 / 247
- Number of attempts: 13
Hello ${world} - 327 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #70 / 98
- Number of attempts: 6
Put the months in order - 979 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #143 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4312 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #604 / 1193
- Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #366 / 446
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 12
- Position: #56 / 248
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3528 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 505 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #52 / 146
- Number of attempts: 12
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #113 / 271
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #225 / 586
- Number of attempts: 10
Mess in revision history - 1210 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #197 / 254
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2380 / 3695
- 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: 18
- Position: #486 / 520
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1724 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 7
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #30 / 174
- Number of attempts: 10
Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #38 / 44
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #120 / 448
- Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #110 / 779
- Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 2162 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #163 / 669
- Number of attempts: 7
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #246 / 420
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #187 / 652
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 19
- Position: #121 / 337
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 12
- Position: #92 / 410
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #502 / 670
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #248 / 534
- Number of attempts: 4
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #323 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1649 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #314 / 609
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1501 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #218 / 582
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 39
- Position: #409 / 435
- Number of attempts: 3