VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rural Post - 3482 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 15
xrandr outputs and dashes - 437 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 570 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 9
Capitalize the Names - 168 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Yo To Hello - 829 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 866 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5651 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 10
Add semicolons - 10176 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7563 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3400 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18136 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32586 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: 7
Just the middle - 11061 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15595 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4582 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10500 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 6
switch variable - 4859 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 12
- Number of attempts: 7
Increment, increment, increment.... - 530 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 5
- Number of attempts: 4
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