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: 24
- Position: #2959 / 7507
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4703 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1064 / 1291
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18894 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1723 / 3901
- Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 197 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #95 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4864 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1249 / 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: 22
- Position: #397 / 469
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2945 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #399 / 710
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2911 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #412 / 645
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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: #283 / 330
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11611 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2474 / 4252
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 409 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: #109 / 185
- Number of attempts: 2
Text to HTML Table - 197 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #42 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 413 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #138 / 152
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 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: #198 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #692 / 1277
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple addition - 341 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: #93 / 126
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 103 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 86
- Position: #29 / 31
- Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 1020 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: #183 / 279
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1308 / 2153
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1030 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #189 / 264
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1079 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #388 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
Add Go XML to structure tags - 195 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: #61 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4333 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #972 / 1197
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #395 / 455
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2210 / 4221
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #837 / 1145
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2220 / 3712
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13033 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2392 / 3987
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5120 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1212 / 1761
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 317 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #88 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1644 / 3892
- Number of attempts: 4
