VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 22
- Position: #909 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 13
Swap values - 4705 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #219 / 1293
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2415 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #548 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 18
- Position: #683 / 867
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #142 / 388
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1566 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: 18
- Position: #232 / 471
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #224 / 712
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2923 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #505 / 647
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11616 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2445 / 4255
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1861 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #123 / 596
- Number of attempts: 9
Stairstep digits - 426 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #12 / 154
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #292 / 1279
- Number of attempts: 8
Adam's challenge - 1042 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: 23
- Position: #212 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #354 / 2157
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2481 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #202 / 461
- Number of attempts: 11
Collect List - 4341 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #356 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2608 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1242 / 3715
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1658 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #502 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #520 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 5
