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: 22
- Position: #324 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4705 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #243 / 1293
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1226 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #140 / 594
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #591 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #10 / 108
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2175 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #229 / 639
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: #155 / 388
- Number of attempts: 8
From argument to object - 1566 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #101 / 471
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2923 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #103 / 647
- Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #531 / 1674
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 328 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #68 / 173
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1149 / 4255
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1861 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #176 / 596
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 553 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #112 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #103 / 149
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #394 / 2157
- Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 1100 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #130 / 433
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 471 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #28 / 123
- Number of attempts: 4
Hello ${world} - 350 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #24 / 104
- Number of attempts: 8
Array transposition - 2481 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2 / 461
- Number of attempts: 7
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: 29
- Position: #27 / 233
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4341 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #170 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #778 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #240 / 1146
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1302 / 3715
- Number of attempts: 6
attr_aligner - 3566 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #447 / 710
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 14
- Position: #296 / 1093
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #661 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 14
Array Transposition - 216 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #18 / 59
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #954 / 1764
- 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: 13
- Position: #546 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #173 / 1889
- Number of attempts: 8
