VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #158 / 7489
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18840 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3151 / 3893
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4833 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #99 / 1904
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #95 / 760
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #411 / 1643
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2602 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #11 / 704
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11555 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #147 / 4234
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #5 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7981 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #65 / 2147
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #208 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Fill visual area - 91 entries
Just have fun!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #6 / 38
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #240 / 290
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 456 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #99 / 240
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 811 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: 12
- Position: #22 / 249
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #87 / 4208
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #34 / 1140
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #13 / 354
- Number of attempts: 6
120 Degrees - 505 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #114 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #4 / 64
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 19
- Position: #573 / 587
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #116 / 439
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #486 / 3703
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #171 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13005 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #453 / 3979
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2615 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #369 / 772
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #272 / 783
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5101 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #375 / 1756
- Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 2015 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #292 / 654
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 897 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #128 / 223
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #298 / 3846
- Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7509 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #571 / 1848
- Number of attempts: 4
