Played Challenges
Inverting Lines - 1900 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #382 / 511
- Number of attempts: 6
RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries
RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf
- Best score: 84
- Best player score: 137
- Position: #44 / 53
- Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 2104 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #303 / 381
- Number of attempts: 6
Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries
Just add another alias to each worker
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #92 / 112
- Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4488 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #984 / 1101
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #133 / 302
- Number of attempts: 12
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #311 / 524
- Number of attempts: 5
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1147 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: 38
- Position: #179 / 230
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 787 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #259 / 416
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4994 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #672 / 1627
- Number of attempts: 11
Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #179 / 214
- Number of attempts: 16
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 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: 46
- Position: #308 / 380
- Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #44 / 196
- Number of attempts: 9
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #95 / 193
- Number of attempts: 16
The name of the game - 668 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #258 / 361
- Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #118 / 446
- Number of attempts: 13
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #306 / 755
- Number of attempts: 10
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #735 / 778
- 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: #181 / 663
- Number of attempts: 12
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #130 / 419
- Number of attempts: 16
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: 15
- Position: #136 / 273
- Number of attempts: 12
Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #115 / 263
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #52 / 148
- Number of attempts: 13
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #63 / 180
- Number of attempts: 8
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #194 / 198
- Number of attempts: 4
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 224 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #68 / 98
- Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 878 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #140 / 204
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1932 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #61 / 653
- Number of attempts: 12
Assignment Alignment - 883 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #115 / 220
- Number of attempts: 16
Shebangs for all - 1999 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: 17
- Position: #362 / 516
- Number of attempts: 14
A Simple One - 1051 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: #515 / 665
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 532 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #87 / 186
- Number of attempts: 12
Reformat a C golf submission - 604 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #175 / 208
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat most common surnames - 740 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 75
- Position: #203 / 214
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1588 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #190 / 592
- Number of attempts: 10
Add fold markers to a .c file - 640 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #101 / 187
- Number of attempts: 12
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #238 / 794
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 19
- Position: #2748 / 3707
- Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7023 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #1222 / 1720
- Number of attempts: 7
Scott Atkins
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