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: #158 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3160 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #99 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 13
- Position: #95 / 773
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #411 / 1675
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2649 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #11 / 712
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #147 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #5 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #65 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 817 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #212 / 285
- Number of attempts: 1
Fill visual area - 124 entries
Just have fun!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #6 / 41
- 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: 29
- Position: #242 / 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: #99 / 246
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 829 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 / 255
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #87 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #34 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1053 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #13 / 362
- 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 - 235 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 / 68
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #582 / 596
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #116 / 451
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #486 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #171 / 1094
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #457 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #372 / 778
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #275 / 789
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #375 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 2039 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #295 / 658
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 909 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #129 / 226
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #298 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #584 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 4
