VimGolfPlayed Challenges
unknown command - 119 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2525 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 8
Hash staircase - 36 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 673 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 157 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12094 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 9
Count both ways - 918 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 240 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 30422 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: 8
Com(m)a Trouble - 2834 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Almost encrypted - 165 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 88 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 6936 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 2902 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5165 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 8270 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2165 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4446 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign numbers to fields - 86 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 263 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 669 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 767 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1359 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 14512 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2483 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 7
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 644 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1669 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 8
readability - 292 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 6387 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4199 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 859 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 43
- Number of attempts: 2
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 51 entries
Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 7
snowflake fractal - 36 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 40
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 89 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 3932 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 83 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 46
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 16694 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4380 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2948 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 1748 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: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10151 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 406 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 278 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2463 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1872 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 10464 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
Convert Application Output to CSV - 138 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Build a six - 257 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2393 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Build a six - 257 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
Cool or not? - 673 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 644 entries
Clean and group.