VimGolfPlayed Challenges
simple format - 1994 entries
make it look better.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 1934 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2442 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 598 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: 14
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 226 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 1211 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 16
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 326 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 1473 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Santa's naughty / nice list - 52 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 44
- Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 1754 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 11130 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
move titles next to url, in quotes - 213 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 5
Build a six - 149 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 7
Put the months in order - 313 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 1085 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 603 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: 5
Delete to the end of the current line - 351 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: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 1321 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 3737 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 4212 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 9
Search and Replace 0 - 3963 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 10716 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 3354 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 8
attr_aligner - 2872 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1361 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 9
quotes inside quotes - 2691 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 1233 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 2
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 10206 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
Com(m)a Trouble - 1147 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 712 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 23279 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: 26
- Number of attempts: 8
Increment each number - 324 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 11719 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1037 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 1985 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Put the months in order - 313 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
