VimGolfPlayed Challenges
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #168 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #54 / 683
- Number of attempts: 11
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #146 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
readability - 306 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #39 / 145
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #140 / 434
- Number of attempts: 4
ASCII box - 317 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #15 / 102
- Number of attempts: 5
Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #39 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 206 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
- Position: #17 / 79
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #99 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3122 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #96 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #634 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #491 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 9
paste indent correction - JS - 92 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
- Position: #33 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor arguments into object argument - 160 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #9 / 64
- Number of attempts: 7
Python to Ruby - 190 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #28 / 56
- Number of attempts: 6
remove dupes from array - 1290 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
- Position: #110 / 325
- Number of attempts: 10
Reformat long lines - 329 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
- Position: #23 / 129
- Number of attempts: 7
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1172 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
- Position: #71 / 386
- Number of attempts: 8
Ruby 1.9 compat - 597 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
- Position: #51 / 226
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #346 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 11