VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 354 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 2
Pretty multi-line bash - 194 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1720 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 459 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 9
vim1001 - 227 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 24466 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: 2
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 20
Hole-in-one - 935 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 2758 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: 2
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 14
Suffix sort - 165 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 11557 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9432 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 8
One to Ten - 845 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: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 3860 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 8
vim = 22 / 7 - 398 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 371 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 9077 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 10932 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a pandoc compatible table - 139 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 66
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 3483 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 227 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 61
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 2549 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Guillaume Seren
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