VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Order and join - 811 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2443 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1221 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: 38
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2134 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 6919 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 16585 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 30302 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: 43
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 2800 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 59
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5690 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 60
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12061 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 945 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
- Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10143 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1812 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 2886 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 5
convert yml into java pojo field - 781 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2694 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 14470 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 10435 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1