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: 22
- Position: #618 / 7474
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4661 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #105 / 1282
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18831 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #91 / 3889
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4830 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #404 / 1903
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2156 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #85 / 636
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 13
- Position: #22 / 642
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 15
- Position: #457 / 759
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2602 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #135 / 704
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11541 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #712 / 4230
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #40 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #25 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #213 / 2146
- Number of attempts: 3
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #18 / 77
- Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 692 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #38 / 164
- Number of attempts: 8
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 125
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #103 / 168
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1073 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #198 / 429
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 814 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #14 / 185
- Number of attempts: 6
Align commas - 1097 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 / 247
- Number of attempts: 6
A grid of punctuation - 140 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #18 / 62
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #29 / 141
- Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #28 / 159
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #451 / 4202
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #176 / 1140
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1011 / 3700
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3525 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #119 / 706
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 14
- Position: #244 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12992 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #707 / 3977
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5094 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #434 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 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 / 3811
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7415 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #151 / 1825
- Number of attempts: 4
