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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1169 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 44
  • Position: #230 / 382
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #204 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 566 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #14 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
  • Position: #452 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #692 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #85 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1928 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #107 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #209 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 297 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #102 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #160 / 196
  • Number of attempts: 3
A simple change - 468 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #167 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 11
  • Position: #123 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 4
The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #121 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #345 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 478 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #104 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #370 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #197 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #212 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #716 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #465 / 665
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #191 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #100 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #70 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1481 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #340 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #257 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 3
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #121 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #529 / 654
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: 14
  • Position: #220 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 22
  • Position: #443 / 519
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1057 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: #336 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #421 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #431 / 531
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #184 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #101 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #375 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #459 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 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: 25
  • Position: #339 / 425
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #241 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2411 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 5
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