VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #636 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #108 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #97 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #409 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2869 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #96 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2825 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #24 / 631
- Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #172 / 739
- Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 140 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #6 / 67
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2530 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #139 / 690
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #724 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 997 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #3 / 265
- Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #41 / 1249
- Number of attempts: 9
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #27 / 120
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #216 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 7
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #19 / 75
- Number of attempts: 3
7th Birthday - 185 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #6 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 421 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #22 / 122
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 497 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #9 / 163
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 982 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #201 / 414
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1048 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: #44 / 240
- Number of attempts: 5
Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #31 / 135
- Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 562 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #31 / 154
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4228 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #242 / 1179
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #65 / 438
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #458 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #178 / 1124
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #73 / 576
- Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1014 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3408 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #122 / 689
- Number of attempts: 9
quotes inside quotes - 3102 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: #248 / 1065
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #704 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #438 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #435 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 3
