VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #2905 / 7503
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4703 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #573 / 1291
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1099 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4860 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1183 / 1910
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2174 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #543 / 638
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2909 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #365 / 644
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2399 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #164 / 767
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #451 / 1667
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2624 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #462 / 708
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11590 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2226 / 4246
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #80 / 123
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #917 / 2153
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #186 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 829 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #141 / 186
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 145 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #35 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #75 / 142
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #109 / 270
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4332 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 1196
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 796 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #127 / 282
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1050 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #107 / 291
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2552 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #634 / 1143
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1035 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #256 / 358
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #356 / 591
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2139 / 3711
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #893 / 1091
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13032 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2344 / 3986
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #609 / 776
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #547 / 786
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2197 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #426 / 679
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5114 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #906 / 1759
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1578 / 3879
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7616 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #583 / 1877
- Number of attempts: 1
