VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #2898 / 7474
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4661 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #569 / 1282
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18831 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1096 / 3889
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4830 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1180 / 1903
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2156 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #541 / 636
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2882 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #363 / 642
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #164 / 759
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #451 / 1637
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2602 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #460 / 704
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2222 / 4230
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #79 / 122
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7974 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #913 / 2146
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1073 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #186 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 814 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #140 / 185
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 140 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #34 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #74 / 141
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #108 / 269
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #126 / 281
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #106 / 290
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2542 / 4202
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #632 / 1140
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #253 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #353 / 587
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2133 / 3700
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #891 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2339 / 3977
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #603 / 767
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #543 / 780
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2182 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #423 / 674
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5094 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #903 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1561 / 3810
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #571 / 1825
- Number of attempts: 1
