VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33927 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: #3869 / 7488
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4667 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1051 / 1284
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1696 / 3893
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4833 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1229 / 1904
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1536 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: #287 / 466
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2925 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #475 / 707
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2379 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #462 / 760
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1135 / 1643
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11555 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2410 / 4234
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #168 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 89 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: #18 / 36
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 313 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #117 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 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: #33 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 195 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #71 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1074 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #216 / 430
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 513 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #94 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #213 / 269
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #654 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #224 / 446
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #214 / 290
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3223 / 4208
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #655 / 1140
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #315 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #362 / 587
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1103 / 3703
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #475 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13001 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2373 / 3978
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2608 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #609 / 770
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2188 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #510 / 676
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5101 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #921 / 1756
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7480 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1334 / 1841
- Number of attempts: 1
