VimGolfPlayed Challenges
multiple cursor alternative - 1375 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: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 17661 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign numbers to fields - 90 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7215 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 194 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1482 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
Mute the second method of this script - 420 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
Separating firstname & lastname - 107 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 10891 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty format for variable declarations - 129 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15243 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5311 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 669 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2411 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 932 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3008 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
120 Degrees - 389 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4523 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1884 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1056 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10391 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 2973 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: 2
Words in parens - 12439 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1876 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 220 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 3
Transposition - 67 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 226 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1412 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2264 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2706 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4479 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11231 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Dmitry Zudochkin
Twitter: @zudochkin
Web developer (mostly ROR), transhumanist, misanthrope, big fan of Haskell and ReactJS