VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #63 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #330 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 5
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #78 / 293
- Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 710 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #22 / 205
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #74 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 352 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #17 / 101
- Number of attempts: 4
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #21 / 247
- Number of attempts: 8
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #10 / 101
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #394 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #68 / 692
- Number of attempts: 3
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 10
- Position: #112 / 511
- Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 14
- Position: #157 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #400 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 16
- Position: #64 / 302
- Number of attempts: 6
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: 29
- Position: #328 / 473
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #305 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #286 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #610 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 3
