VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 24959 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: 12
Box it - 2882 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 10
simple format - 2817 entries
make it look better.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 1449 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 384 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 10
multiple cursor alternative - 1062 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: 19
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1085 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 4579 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 3516 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 3909 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1438 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 240 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 12718 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 14
Collect List - 3467 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 10
Cool or not? - 449 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 11
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9487 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 9169 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 11011 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 911 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: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 1549 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 380 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: 1
Vice versa - 5908 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 1699 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 10388 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
Applying same text modification in several lines - 1626 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2000 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 7
Every other line - 2091 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 18
Santa's naughty / nice list - 65 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: 58
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 11726 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 9
Array transposition - 1591 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 11
