VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 22
- Position: #615 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4705 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #103 / 1293
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #89 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #403 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2175 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #84 / 639
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2923 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #21 / 647
- Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #170 / 772
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #463 / 1674
- Number of attempts: 9
That hyphen - 2646 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #137 / 711
- Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11616 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #708 / 4255
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #39 / 1279
- Number of attempts: 8
Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #24 / 124
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 8019 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #212 / 2157
- Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #17 / 80
- Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 712 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #37 / 167
- Number of attempts: 12
Paragraph sort - 479 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #19 / 128
- Number of attempts: 9
comments galore - 1100 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #199 / 433
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 830 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #15 / 187
- Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1134 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #42 / 250
- Number of attempts: 6
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #28 / 144
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 627 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #29 / 163
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4341 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #238 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #62 / 456
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #446 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #177 / 1146
- Number of attempts: 11
Don't know what this is - 2066 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: 11
- Position: #71 / 594
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1010 / 3715
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3566 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #120 / 710
- Number of attempts: 17
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 14
- Position: #246 / 1093
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1569 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #86 / 789
- Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #436 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #429 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 5
