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: #712 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1027 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #131 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #424 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #98 / 633
- Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #315 / 702
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 14
- Position: #193 / 639
- Number of attempts: 7
Start coding format - 149 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #18 / 71
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #146 / 698
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #766 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #753 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 5
7th Birthday - 187 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: 23
- Position: #38 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 431 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #62 / 124
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #19 / 166
- Number of attempts: 6
Inner hyphens - 130 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #5 / 80
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #66 / 183
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #48 / 243
- Number of attempts: 7
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #97 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #33 / 157
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #257 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 8
VimGolfNight - 538 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #245 / 344
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #488 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #184 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 6
120 Degrees - 469 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #73 / 144
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1035 / 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: #126 / 695
- Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #714 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 7
Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #43 / 476
- Number of attempts: 8
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #52 / 748
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #447 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 6
A Simple One - 1009 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #443 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #447 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 3
