VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 28
- Position: #4335 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #462 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2192 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #281 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1327 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #548 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #828 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #22 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #505 / 826
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #157 / 376
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #346 / 700
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #331 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3545 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #299 / 581
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #144 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1347 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #13 / 203
- Number of attempts: 4
simple format (3) - 72 entries
reverse two column values!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #14 / 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #128 / 443
- Number of attempts: 7
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #105 / 223
- Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #31 / 83
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 334 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #39 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #593 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1792 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2342 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #928 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #391 / 473
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #478 / 736
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #120 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #147 / 311
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1682 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #628 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 2
