VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Word Blender - 146 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #41 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #884 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #67 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #34 / 163
- Number of attempts: 2
Before there was Farmville... - 97 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 229
- Position: #30 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 341 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #117 / 130
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #91 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #41 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #28 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: 12
- Position: #8 / 401
- Number of attempts: 4
CSV to JSON - 172 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 115
- Position: #38 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #125 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 13
- Position: #174 / 500
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1001 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: #166 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #439 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #51 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 13
- Position: #25 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #231 / 558
- Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #76 / 289
- Number of attempts: 1
