Played Challenges
HS Final exam vimgolf - 897 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #48 / 236
- Number of attempts: 4
ssh config skills - 258 entries
Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!
- Best score: 41
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #16 / 66
- Number of attempts: 8
Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 309 entries
Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #9 / 56
- Number of attempts: 9
Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #24 / 156
- Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4485 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #17 / 1099
- Number of attempts: 10
Satisfy the go linter - 2391 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #183 / 471
- Number of attempts: 8
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 957 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #25 / 306
- Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 703 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #86 / 302
- Number of attempts: 2
Data reformat - 294 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #29 / 65
- Number of attempts: 4
xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #87 / 221
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #36 / 169
- Number of attempts: 3
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #29 / 229
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 23
- Position: #2788 / 7422
- Number of attempts: 7
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #38 / 262
- Number of attempts: 5
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #48 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4622 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #334 / 1269
- Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #665 / 1539
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18732 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #697 / 3865
- Number of attempts: 10
Quote modules - 1084 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #29 / 281
- Number of attempts: 6
Aliases for cd - 879 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #12 / 155
- Number of attempts: 16
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #95 / 579
- Number of attempts: 6
Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #79 / 231
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4806 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #751 / 1894
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
- Position: #254 / 852
- Number of attempts: 5
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #55 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #47 / 249
- Number of attempts: 11
Add semicolons - 10867 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1602 / 3065
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #8 / 526
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #310 / 634
- Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3590 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #815 / 1163
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3829 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #126 / 866
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7906 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #781 / 1877
- Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 829 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #61 / 230
- 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: 19
- Position: #88 / 380
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 17
- Position: #138 / 458
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #51 / 178
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #70 / 703
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #167 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #658 / 1625
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11458 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3116 / 4199
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #266 / 588
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5662 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #239 / 1265
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1420 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #69 / 267
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7910 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #569 / 2129
- Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2219 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #305 / 672
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2045 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #6 / 504
- Number of attempts: 7
Increment each number - 1023 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #54 / 248
- Number of attempts: 7
Put the months in order - 974 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #13 / 163
- Number of attempts: 15
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #78 / 264
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2417 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #33 / 448
- Number of attempts: 21
Collect List - 4305 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #495 / 1191
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1079 / 4182
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #296 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1545 / 3684
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #169 / 702
- Number of attempts: 15
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: 15
- Position: #508 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12939 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1843 / 3964
- Number of attempts: 3
Alphabet soup - 429 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #7 / 108
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #173 / 663
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #629 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #640 / 3698
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7010 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #479 / 1713
- Number of attempts: 8
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