VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #2952 / 7474
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4661 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1059 / 1282
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18831 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1717 / 3889
- Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 191 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #94 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4830 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1245 / 1903
- 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: 22
- Position: #395 / 466
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2925 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #397 / 707
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2882 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #409 / 642
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #281 / 328
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11541 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2468 / 4230
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 405 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: #108 / 183
- Number of attempts: 2
Text to HTML Table - 185 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #41 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 407 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #136 / 149
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 943 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: #197 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #689 / 1273
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple addition - 332 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: #91 / 124
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 93 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 86
- Position: #28 / 30
- Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 1009 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: #181 / 276
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7974 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1304 / 2146
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 992 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #186 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1073 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #386 / 429
- Number of attempts: 2
Add Go XML to structure tags - 184 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: #60 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #969 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #389 / 446
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2199 / 4202
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #833 / 1140
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2214 / 3700
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2387 / 3977
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5094 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1206 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 294 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #86 / 104
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1622 / 3810
- Number of attempts: 4
