VimGolfPlayed Challenges
xrandr outputs and dashes - 437 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 818 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5640 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 233 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1059 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 1832 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 7
calculations - 199 entries
Complete these (weird) calculations.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 8
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 94 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 62 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 142 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 724 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII-art Histogram - 249 entries
Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 123
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 1879 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 221 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 91 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1193 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 681 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7553 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 921 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2027 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 699 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 3
Put the months in order - 884 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 46
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3400 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 583 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2689 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3253 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2395 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1751 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1405 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: 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2233 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 52
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1245 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: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2770 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18132 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 11
Angular naming conventions - 279 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7369 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32574 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
- Number of attempts: 10
Restore order to the alphabet - 161 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Test everything! - 113 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11061 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15593 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5389 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 10
That hyphen - 2456 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3076 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4577 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10496 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 2995 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12655 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 8
A simple change - 377 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1441 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 4856 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1042 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 46
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11306 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: 4