VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 27
- Position: #3878 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4707 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1057 / 1294
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1702 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1232 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1566 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #290 / 471
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #479 / 712
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #470 / 773
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1158 / 1675
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2414 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1072 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #170 / 276
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 106 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #19 / 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 322 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #119 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 258 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #34 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 210 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #74 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1101 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #216 / 433
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 551 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #97 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #217 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #659 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #230 / 458
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1052 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #216 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3236 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #659 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1053 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #322 / 362
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 14
- Position: #369 / 596
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1103 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 15
- Position: #479 / 1094
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2380 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #612 / 778
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #516 / 684
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #926 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1364 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 1
