Played Challenges
quotes inside quotes - 2996 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 350 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Top X - 185 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12674 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 324 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 3
Vertical Limit - 2294 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 12
Switch function arguments - 1919 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
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
replacing each line of a block selection - 2740 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 10
switch variable - 4863 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1774 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4510 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2762 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5781 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 10