VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5590 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 48
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 846 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: 44
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 394 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 28261 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: 33
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1035 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1260 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 662 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
The name of the game - 592 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Assign numbers to fields - 85 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 47
- Number of attempts: 4
learn vim in short time - 187 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1332 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: 2
Just the middle - 9962 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 10828 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4222 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4501 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 11684 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 852 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 3737 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1143 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 966 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 13465 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
Mirror Symmetry - 727 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2296 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
Shebangs for all - 1643 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1095 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: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 2776 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4346 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9904 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1436 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 2
Pretty format for variable declarations - 128 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
lamb had a little Mary - 517 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 43
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 4922 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 720 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 6517 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 6
