VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #46 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #295 / 379
- Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 248 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #56 / 94
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #138 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1929 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #354 / 651
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #374 / 403
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1961 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #442 / 506
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1037 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #47 / 657
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 299 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 91
- Position: #62 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 142
- Position: #101 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 470 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #105 / 175
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #184 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #60 / 457
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #367 / 405
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #137 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 531 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 103
- Position: #173 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 495 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #145 / 182
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 97 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 79
- Position: #53 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1324 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #395 / 521
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 558 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #213 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 398 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #128 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #233 / 243
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #141 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #334 / 342
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #226 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 582 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #98 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 750 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #240 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #13 / 577
- Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 604 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #131 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #767 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 1
