VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #3872 / 7498
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4693 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1054 / 1289
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1700 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4848 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1230 / 1907
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1552 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: #289 / 469
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2945 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #478 / 710
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2392 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #465 / 765
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1144 / 1658
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2412 / 4240
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1071 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #169 / 275
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 100 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 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 316 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #118 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 248 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 / 84
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 202 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #72 / 78
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1079 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #216 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 525 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #95 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #214 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #656 / 1196
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1686 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #227 / 451
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1050 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #215 / 291
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3229 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3229 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #656 / 1142
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1028 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #316 / 355
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2036 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: #363 / 589
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1103 / 3710
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3191 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: #476 / 1088
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13024 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2375 / 3983
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #610 / 774
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2195 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #511 / 678
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5110 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #923 / 1758
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1345 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 1
