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: #3894 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1728 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #455 / 594
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #286 / 867
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #572 / 712
- Number of attempts: 2
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #95 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2649 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #473 / 712
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #245 / 332
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2433 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 351 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #117 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1043 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #236 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #239 / 297
- Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 302 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #74 / 102
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 11
- Position: #138 / 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: 20
- Position: #77 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1304 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #339 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2598 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #663 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 2
Change name of a variable - 197 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #101 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2208 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2387 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 310 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #97 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #486 / 789
- 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: #517 / 684
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #930 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 3
