VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 22
- Position: #615 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #103 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #89 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #403 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #84 / 630
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #21 / 635
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #170 / 744
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #463 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 9
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #137 / 695
- Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #708 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #39 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 8
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #24 / 120
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #212 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #17 / 75
- Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #35 / 161
- Number of attempts: 12
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #19 / 123
- Number of attempts: 9
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #199 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #15 / 182
- Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1049 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #42 / 241
- Number of attempts: 6
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #28 / 136
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #29 / 155
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #238 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #62 / 440
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #446 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #177 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 11
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #71 / 578
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1010 / 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: #120 / 692
- Number of attempts: 17
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: #246 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1545 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #86 / 768
- Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #436 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 12
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: #429 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 5
