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: 24
- Position: #2963 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4707 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1066 / 1294
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1724 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 202 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #97 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1249 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
- Position: #398 / 471
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #400 / 712
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2924 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #413 / 647
- 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: 13
- Position: #285 / 332
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2474 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 420 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #111 / 187
- Number of attempts: 2
Text to HTML Table - 198 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #43 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 426 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #140 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #199 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #695 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #95 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 104 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 86
- Position: #30 / 32
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
- Position: #185 / 281
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1310 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1032 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #190 / 265
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1101 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #390 / 433
- Number of attempts: 2
Add Go XML to structure tags - 211 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #63 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #974 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #397 / 458
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2213 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #839 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2222 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2395 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1213 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #89 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1648 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 4
