VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Resort and deup a CSV list - 122 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 210
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 451 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 51
- Number of attempts: 11
replacing each line of a block selection - 2604 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 720 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 - 540 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 5
Line under headers - 751 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 7
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 507 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 9
move titles next to url, in quotes - 355 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 5
Build a six - 245 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 4489 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 22
Every other line - 2259 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 14428 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 792 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 4226 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2256 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
-a-b-c- - 2716 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 4453 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4155 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 4857 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 12
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 481 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
Com(m)a Trouble - 2192 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 - 833 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 text editing with Vim - 10706 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
multiple cursor alternative - 1181 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 565 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 - 2040 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 16
Put the months in order - 603 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2259 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 1375 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
Just the middle - 9765 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 11444 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 1770 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Santa's naughty / nice list - 70 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 - 1924 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 12879 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 3634 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 8
attr_aligner - 3087 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1539 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 9
quotes inside quotes - 2845 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: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 4854 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 1795 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 27216 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: 19
Increment each number - 605 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 7
From argument to object - 1135 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
Bad Copy Syntax - 1112 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 7
Contributed Challenges
Put the months in order - 603 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
