VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #618 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #105 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #91 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #404 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #85 / 633
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #22 / 639
- Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #452 / 750
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #135 / 698
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #712 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #40 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #25 / 121
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #213 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 3
Pretty multi-line bash - 219 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #18 / 76
- Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 689 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #38 / 162
- Number of attempts: 8
Paragraph sort - 431 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 124
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #101 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #198 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #14 / 183
- Number of attempts: 6
Align commas - 1063 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: #43 / 243
- Number of attempts: 6
A grid of punctuation - 127 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #18 / 59
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #29 / 137
- Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #28 / 157
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #451 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #176 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1011 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #119 / 695
- Number of attempts: 11
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #244 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #697 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #434 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #431 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #149 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 4
