VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Sorting database text output - 188 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1205 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 10
readability - 285 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 6
ASCII box - 295 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1407 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 4
paste indent correction - JS - 76 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 415 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 557 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 11284 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 9554 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Python to Ruby - 188 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9670 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2236 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 11
V to the i - 4057 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
Refactor arguments into object argument - 157 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 52
- Number of attempts: 7
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1080 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 10610 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 12493 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat long lines - 316 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 2676 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
