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: 24
- Position: #2866 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #563 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1084 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1169 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #538 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
- Position: #360 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #164 / 744
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #451 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #456 / 695
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2211 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #77 / 120
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #902 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #186 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #138 / 182
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #32 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #72 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #105 / 266
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #124 / 274
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #104 / 284
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2520 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #627 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #251 / 351
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 14
- Position: #349 / 578
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2116 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 17
- Position: #885 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2319 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #583 / 738
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #536 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #407 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #895 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1510 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #538 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1
