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Played Challenges

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1175 / 1621
  • Number of attempts: 2
Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #79 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #42 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #140 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 350 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #14 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split the words - 363 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #66 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1660 / 3680
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3502 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #256 / 697
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1624 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: #380 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #773 / 1078
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #231 / 3961
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #236 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #113 / 229
  • 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: 9
  • Position: #199 / 446
  • 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: 25
  • Position: #170 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #442 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #263 / 777
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2126 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #251 / 660
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1117 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1993 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #160 / 648
  • Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #344 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12740 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2193 / 3680
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6937 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1025 / 1699
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Carriage return - 43 entries

I have some raw data from terminal output which uses carriege return for formatting. Carriage return sets the pointer to the first character on the line, and subsequent characters will overwrite what was there before. The challange is to simulate the terminal behaviour in vim. I'm kind of unsure if I should have skipped lines 9 and 15, since there might be some interesting solutions which are not that generic. Happy Golfing!

Andreas Källberg
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entered into 23 challenges

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