VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2909 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4707 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #574 / 1294
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1100 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1184 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2175 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #544 / 639
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2924 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #367 / 647
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #164 / 773
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #451 / 1675
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2649 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #465 / 712
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2228 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #81 / 124
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #919 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1101 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #186 / 433
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 830 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #142 / 187
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 156 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #35 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #76 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #110 / 273
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 817 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #127 / 285
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1052 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #108 / 292
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2558 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #636 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1053 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #258 / 362
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #360 / 596
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2141 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #896 / 1094
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2347 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #609 / 778
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #550 / 789
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #428 / 684
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #909 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1587 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #590 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 1
