VimGolfPlayed Challenges
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 199 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 218 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 304 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1113 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: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and count - 389 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 176 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 739 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 281 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 130
- Number of attempts: 4
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 530 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 206 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 870 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
Table Reshuffle - 326 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 249 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 7
Hatsuyume - 368 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn this csv list into queries - 190 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 107
- Number of attempts: 3
Context insensitive completion 0 - 461 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 5
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 860 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: 1
Reformat some Python - 534 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 492 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4510 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Get rid of html tags - 319 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 540 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1270 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 6
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 521 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 4
Flodder-challenge - 829 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2762 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11332 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: 5
Contributed Challenges
Fix the Haiku - 249 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 206 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Table Reshuffle - 326 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
A Simple One - 870 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...