VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 32
- Position: #5791 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #175 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2646 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #56 / 711
- Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #370 / 1280
- Number of attempts: 10
Logging with key - 343 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2 / 90
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1693 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #11 / 457
- Number of attempts: 7
Fill visual area - 123 entries
Just have fun!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #14 / 40
- Number of attempts: 4
ASCII box - 378 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #22 / 111
- Number of attempts: 5
Mute the second method of this script - 464 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #55 / 245
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 236 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: 24
- Position: #23 / 87
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #114 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #79 / 1146
- Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #28 / 309
- Number of attempts: 12
Don't know what this is - 2067 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: 11
- Position: #39 / 595
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #648 / 3716
- Number of attempts: 7
Letter case trickery - 1686 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #406 / 525
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #187 / 1093
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #526 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #346 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #336 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 5
