VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33981 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: #3873 / 7507
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4703 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1055 / 1291
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18894 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1701 / 3901
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4864 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1232 / 1912
- 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 - 2401 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #466 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1154 / 1670
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11611 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2414 / 4252
- 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 - 528 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #95 / 130
- 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 - 4333 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #657 / 1197
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #228 / 455
- 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 - 16185 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3232 / 4221
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #659 / 1145
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1037 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #319 / 359
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #366 / 592
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1103 / 3712
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #477 / 1091
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13033 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2377 / 3987
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #612 / 776
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2204 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #514 / 681
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5120 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #925 / 1761
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1357 / 1882
- Number of attempts: 1
