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: 24
- Position: #2924 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #102 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #949 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #320 / 772
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #844 / 1280
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 550 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #125 / 172
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 827 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: 14
- Position: #127 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Pretty format for variable declarations - 186 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #39 / 68
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2429 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #514 / 1146
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1052 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #197 / 361
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 763 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #162 / 276
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #140 / 309
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
- Position: #481 / 595
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #330 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1945 / 3716
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3566 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #240 / 710
- 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: 16
- Position: #609 / 1093
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #1419 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #395 / 1889
- Number of attempts: 2
