VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Split the words - 334 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 3
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 317 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 201 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 682 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 493 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 9695 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1008 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 881 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4443 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Change name of a variable - 146 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 627 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 57
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 504 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 165 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 11378 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 849 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2049 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1805 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 3627 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 1852 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9734 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4210 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 921 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 463 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 407 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 947 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: 2
Vim tetris - 338 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
Across-Down Flip - 42 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
