VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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
- Position: #28 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #926 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #100 / 773
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2649 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #14 / 712
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1655 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #548 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #873 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1101 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #64 / 433
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #127 / 273
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #684 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 2
Rail fence transposition cipher - 112 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #22 / 29
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 817 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #83 / 285
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 342 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #50 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 210 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #12 / 63
- Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 343 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #34 / 90
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #220 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 1052 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #88 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 427 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #87 / 116
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 379 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #72 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #67 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 829 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #110 / 255
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1456 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 103 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #12 / 31
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #776 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1053 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #102 / 362
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 765 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #38 / 277
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 14
- Position: #317 / 596
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #490 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #461 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #268 / 684
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1402 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 1
