VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #447 / 7498
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1096 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4848 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #155 / 1907
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2392 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #435 / 765
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1462 / 1658
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #49 / 708
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11572 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1636 / 4240
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #988 / 1277
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 136 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #31 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7995 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1758 / 2151
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #18 / 142
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 675 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #211 / 260
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 331 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #11 / 153
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1050 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #154 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #81 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 436 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #192 / 208
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #79 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 7
learn vim in short time - 245 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #56 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3229 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #69 / 1142
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1167 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #218 / 304
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #704 / 3710
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3191 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: 14
- Position: #181 / 1088
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13024 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2662 / 3983
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 185 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #48 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 63
- Position: #96 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 392 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #137 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2090 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #283 / 529
- Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #152 / 238
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #33 / 463
- Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #204 / 539
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1761 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #154 / 645
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #328 / 3865
- Number of attempts: 4
