VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #3816 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1032 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1681 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1217 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1474 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: #276 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #471 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #452 / 744
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1091 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2397 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #165 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 72 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: #16 / 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #114 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 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: #31 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #68 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #216 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #92 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #210 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #648 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #222 / 440
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #209 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3190 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #650 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #312 / 351
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #358 / 578
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1103 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #471 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2352 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2437 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #584 / 736
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2078 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #493 / 651
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #911 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1222 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 1
