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: #447 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1097 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #155 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
- Position: #440 / 773
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1479 / 1675
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2649 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #49 / 712
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1638 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #992 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 146 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #31 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1762 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #18 / 144
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 695 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #214 / 263
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 342 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #11 / 156
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1052 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #155 / 292
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #81 / 246
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 440 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #196 / 212
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #79 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 7
learn vim in short time - 248 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #56 / 168
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #69 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #223 / 310
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #704 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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 / 1094
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2667 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 193 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #49 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Alphabetize the directory - 331 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 63
- Position: #98 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #137 / 221
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #285 / 533
- Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 compat - 664 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: #155 / 242
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #33 / 466
- Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #205 / 543
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1803 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #154 / 656
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #328 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 4
