VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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 / 7503
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3155 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4860 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #99 / 1910
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2399 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #95 / 767
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #411 / 1667
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2624 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #11 / 708
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11590 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #147 / 4246
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #5 / 1277
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 8011 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #65 / 2153
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4332 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 1196
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 796 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #209 / 282
- Number of attempts: 1
Fill visual area - 107 entries
Just have fun!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #6 / 39
- 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: 29
- Position: #241 / 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: #99 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 820 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 / 251
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #87 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #34 / 1143
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1035 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #13 / 358
- Number of attempts: 6
120 Degrees - 517 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #115 / 147
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 211 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 / 65
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #577 / 591
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #116 / 445
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #486 / 3711
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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 / 1091
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13032 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #456 / 3986
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #372 / 776
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #273 / 786
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5114 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #375 / 1759
- Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 2028 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #294 / 656
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 898 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #128 / 224
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 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 / 3879
- Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7616 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #577 / 1877
- Number of attempts: 4
