Played 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: 28
- Position: #4231 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #885 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2674 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1251 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #300 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #20 / 376
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #57 / 450
- Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #395 / 700
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Position: #223 / 635
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 14
- Position: #348 / 744
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #166 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #68 / 314
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2514 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 385 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #52 / 176
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #99 / 141
- Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #82 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple addition - 310 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #29 / 117
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #177 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #313 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 5
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #26 / 182
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #79 / 443
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #652 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #265 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #631 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #214 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2217 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #227 / 692
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Position: #474 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Flip the chessboard - 78 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #21 / 30
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #64 / 738
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #484 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #87 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #1583 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1