VimGolfPlayed Challenges
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: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3400 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 124 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 53
- 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 - 2696 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 798 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: 29
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2395 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1409 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: 20
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2744 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18179 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4373 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32606 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: 11
Just the middle - 11064 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15607 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2175 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10506 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12671 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 597 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 156 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 4
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 141 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2293 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 1918 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Remove semicolons after expressions - 499 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 899 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
The meaning - 515 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2739 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4859 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
remove dupes from array - 1260 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: 27
- Number of attempts: 5
Sort the cardinal numbers - 236 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1718 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11327 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: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5779 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 5