VimGolfPlayed Challenges
One to Ten - 1739 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: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2926 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 130 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 8193 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4444 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 11054 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: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2156 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
comment and uncomment code inline - 945 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2461 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 16617 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 10444 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 14487 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10144 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 2886 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 155 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
unknown command - 119 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 406 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 781 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: 6
From argument to object - 1221 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 319 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1637 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12073 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 624 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 30335 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: 27
- Number of attempts: 6
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 368 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 677 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: 1